Week 24. Feb 11.14 2019 - michelle-qin/Portfolio GitHub Wiki

Got pre-made parts to program as interactive components for the ball Wall. These parts were made by students for the Carousel of Physics back in 2015. They perform various functions, e.g., ball pump, rotating ball to different directions, etc. They all utilize either stepper or servo motor, which I've been practicing on with the featherwing last week.

The first part I worked on was a component that included a sensor that sensed the ball and moved the ball to a random direction (either right or left). After trouble-shooting, we realized that the sensor did not work and we had to take apart the component to replace the sensor. This is still under construction.

Second part I'm working on is a ball pump that rotates the ball and spits it out in a different direction. However, lately, we've been experience a lot of problems with Mu (the Python editor that I've been using) which has eaten up a lot of our time. Mu continuously crashes at random times. We replaced the power input and tried various techniques, but the issue persists.

Since this has been very inconvenient, I am going to download the Arduino IDE setup for the featherboard on a different tablet. Hopefully there is more success with Arduino than what we've been experiencing with Python so far. (For context: adafruit documentation for the m4 express feather includes 2 different programs to code the featherwing: Arduino & Python)