Notebook

Week 1 (January 14 to January 21)

Done This Week
- Each part of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
Objectives for the Next Week
- Assembling the Project Overview Statement
- Starting to acquire knowledge
- Starting to build the OPENTRONS's robot
Problems encountered
- Assignment of the POS's parts to team's members
- Internal communications not efficient (Too much posts on the Facebook wall)

Done This Week
- Assembling the Project Overview Statement
- Thinking about an efficient way to organise internal communications
- First mecanical designs of the modules
- First experimentations done on Peltier elements
Objectives for the Next Week
- First experimentations on magnets
- Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Optic density circuit board up and running
Problems encountered
- No Instuction received from Opentron to build their robot

Done This Week
- Preliminary mecanical design of the MC96
- Finalizing the reserch on Peltier elements and photoreceptors
- Choosing microcontroller used in each modules
- Meeting with Opentrons
Objectives for the Next Week
- Continuing experimentations on magnets
- Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Optic density circuit board up and running
- Starting to order pieces for first prototypes
Problems encountered
- Disagreement with Meacatronix team about the microcontroller choice
- Machining of some metal parts are too complex for university's tools