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Notebook

Week 1 (January 14 to January 21)

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Instrumentation

• 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)

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 2 (January 22 to January 28)

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Instrumentation

• 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

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 3 (January 29 to February 4)

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Instrumentation

• 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 Mecatronix team about the microcontroller choice
  • Machining of some metal parts are too complex for university's tools

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 4 (February 5 to February 11)

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Instrumentation

• Done This Week
  • Experimentations and order of magnets
  • Modeling of the turbidity function
  • 3D modeling of all modules
  • Heat transmission simulation of the TAC
  • Split the Project Management Plan (PMP) into individual parts
  • Correction of the individual parts of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
• Objectives for the Next Week
  • Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
  • Assembling the corrected parts of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
  • Heat transmission simulation of the MC96 and MC1.5
  • Order Peltier elements
  • Peer review of team's performance
• Problems encountered
  • Difficult choice between multiples 3D designs for the MC96
  • Difficult choice between different types of magnets, due to many constraints (mecanical and physical)

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 5 (February 12 to February 18)

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Instrumentation

• Done This Week
  • Starting to write individual parts of the Project Management Plan (PMP)
  • Assembling the corrected parts of the Project Overview Statement (POS)
  • Heat transmission simulation of the MC96 and MC1.5
  • Peltier elements received and characterized
  • Peer review of team's performance
• Objectives for the Next Week
  • Finishing Heat transmission simulation
  • Starting electrical plans for the TAC
  • Finishing Project Management Plan (PMP)
  • Midterm project audit
• Problems encountered
  • Courses overload for 4 members of the team

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 6 (February 19 to February 25)

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Instrumentation

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• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 7 (February 26 to March 4)

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Instrumentation

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 8 (March 5 to March 11)

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Instrumentation

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• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 9 (March 12 to March 18)

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Instrumentation

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 10 (March 19 to February 25)

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Instrumentation

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• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 11 (March 26 to April 1)

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Instrumentation

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• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 12 (April 2 to April 8)

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Instrumentation

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• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 13 (April 9 to April 15)

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Instrumentation

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• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 14 (April 16 to April 22)

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Instrumentation

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• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 15 (April 23 to April 29)

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Instrumentation

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• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

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• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 16 (April 30 to May 6)

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Instrumentation

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• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 17 (May 7 to May 13)

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Instrumentation

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• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 18 (May 14 to May 20)

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Instrumentation

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• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 19 (May 21 to May 27)

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Instrumentation

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Week 20 (May 28 to June 3)

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Instrumentation

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered

Mecatronix

• Done This Week
• Objectives for the Next Week
• Problems encountered