October Update #5

Tasks for week of October 30- November 6:

Ogi -
1) Research camera models, try to get a hold of a physical item by Nov 6 if possible. Else propose top 3 picks from vendors that we can buy from. If over $80, look into sharing budget with another department.
2) Obtain prototyping parts - protoboard (TH and SMD)

Sam -
Develop power circuit so that parts may be ordered and prototype constructed.

Ian -
Install Ubuntu on Beagle, get set up for PWM control (if completed, continue progress on the app)

Matt -
1) Order batteries, order battery charger, order battery holder, order BeagleBone, order RN4020
2) Investigate servos, investigate RN4020, investigate embedded camera, investigate camera cape

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Updates from this past week:

We submitted the midterm report, the midterm resume, and the midterm presentation (and presented!) Hooray!

Ian found:
Batteries - B00KO89LL2
Charger - B00KBEJ6SC
Holder - 36-1109-ND


Sam basically made a big breakthrough with the power circuit.

Matt bought a BeagleBone for himself so we can start playing with it.

Ian tought Matt at this meeting how to start using the Beaglebone

Proposed Project Name: TITAN Camera Control

Updates

Hey guys, I just wanted to post some links to components I have chosen for the power system.

Battery: On board protection circuits!! http://www.adafruit.com/product/354

Regulators: http://www.ti.com/product/TPS63061/technicaldocuments

Sam's First Update

Ello Gents,

As for this week I started putting together a design for the buck converters for the motors and BBB, as well as started hunting for individual components. I will keep my update to this for now as I do not have a complete parts list for each converter yet and I want the parts list post to be concise. Look back next week for the complete design for the switching regulators as well as some info on linear regulators as an option per our last meeting.

Cheers

Ian Weekly Update

Hello!

This week I was focused on getting the mobile app started. As of right now, I have created a basic layout of the app. The app will be driven by 1 main activity. This activity will manage Android Fragments that will act as different content containers. The three main content fragments will be the following:

• Main Screen: shows video feed and has camera controls,
• Connect a Camera: this will handle connecting a camera (big surprise)
• Settings: Settings for the app

The Main Activity will also handle the bluetooth communication.

I have also created a GitHub for the project: https://github.com/linkian209/TeamG_SeniorDesignProject

This is all I have to report at this time!

Ian Drake

Software Guru

Items posted to G-Drive

New Items:

Midterm Paper Task Assignments: Senior Design >> Midterm >> Criteria
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B2dgpfCKgOejdmRiaEZybUU3Zzg

Midterm Paper Breakdown: Senior Design >> Midterm
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B2dgpfCKgOejZ1RmY2dQTnVESjA


MJT
9 October

Design Team G Meeting Summary - 9 October 2015

Agenda:
Review design aspects

Plan design stages

Distribute design tasks

Distribute Midterm tasks

Begin assembling midterm paper

Discussion Topics:

Power supply design criteria

                (Regulating input voltage to 5V +/- 0.25V)

Dr. Bao can help us develop a custom, all-inclusive dev board

We can still plan on moving forward with using the BBB as the main dev board

http://blogsdpteamg.blogspot.com/

http://www.robotshop.com/en/lynxmotion-pan-and-tilt-kit-aluminium2.html

http://www.modmypi.com/image/data/tutorials/how-to-power-my/9.jpg

http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/BBB_SRM.pdf

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/50002279B.pdf

https://www.adafruit.com/products/1142

Custom Dev Board constraints:

Pin:

-PWM (minimum of 2, ideally 4 or more)

-GPIO (Ain – ideally 4 or more , Digital (3.3/5?)  - Ideally around 12 or more)

-Dedicated hardware pins: UART, I2C, SPI (4 device lines)

Rails:

-5V

-3.3V

-GND

Chips:

-RAM

-CPU (GPU?)

-Flash mem

-BLE

-Camera controller

-Battery Management

-Voltage regulator (5V)

-Voltage regulator (3.3V)

Connectors:

-Power jack (normal)

-Ethernet

-USB (all female) – (x2 A-type, x1 B-type, x1 micro B-type) (can we use USB 3?)

-uSD

-HDMI

Tasks to take away:

-Send Dr. Bao list of dev board items to see what we can have made

-Get budget

-Continue working on App

-Design power system (5V supply)

-Solidify battery delivery system (recharge protection, charger module)

-MAKE BLOG POSTS

-WORK ON MIDTERM PAPER

Hi guys!!! This is a test :)