Week 4

Group Meetings

The 5th member of our group have finally turn up, we have decided that we will be doing the same roles and individually working on our own parts. At the end of this week's tutorial Russell allocated 2 Arduino microprocessors to continue with the driving machine project, there are lot of components and sensors comes with the processor. There's a guide Russell gave us which provides simple installation of the sensor to the chip and coding, which Russell strongly recommend to start off, follow and learn basics of the microprocessor.

A problem we encounter that we thought we chip was faulty as Daming was trying to replicate the chip he made earlier however the LED light wouldn't light up as the sensor are not working at the same time but he double check that it didn't work so i travel over to his house and fix the problem

it wasn't actually the chip that is faulty it was that the plate was installed upside down so we had to re-plug everything.

this picture we can see the LED is and we testing the flex sensor and potentionmeter.

Week 3

Project Presentation of Back Brief
The 5th team member still haven't contact us and we tried to reach but failed so 4 of us did our own research for the Back Briefs for the presentation and hope that he well turn up for next weeks's class.

We have presented our project and overview to our client, in this case Russel is our client our understanding of the project aim was a little different to what Russell was expecting, in the presentation our aim was to provide the user with real life experience in a virtual world of driving a truck which wasn't what Russel expecting at the end of the presentation we have given solid feedback and corrections for the project and we are back on track to work on the project.

Each member in the group also downloaded the UE4 gaming engine onto their working stations and the program to write codes for the Arduino so we can have basic understandings for the chip.

Click here for the link to our group presentation of Back Brief

Week 2 Research for Presentation

We were allocated into different groups by Russel as we submitted our targeted CV for the projects.

I was allocated in the Driving Machine. This project requires the group to provided driving experience .

The aim of the project is to enhance the experiences by integrating a steering system with Arduino microprocessor into Unreal Engine 4 an level provided by Russel, we need to Fabricate a physical steering wheel that uses the microprocessor and required sensors to steer a truck in the UE4 computer game engine.

At the end of the class we have discussed the work we need to finish in order to finish the project, we allocated different roles to each member as we worked on a project from last semester we know each others strengths and weaknesses, however one of the team member didn't show up and we cannot contact as we don't know who he is.

For the group presentation of Back Briefs, my part was to research on different materials, analysing what is suitable for our design and the mainly the cost to reproduce it as one of the criteria is to produce a blue print along the side using cheap materials so developing country can reproduce it.

In conclusion, i have made a list for the materials and tools that are suitable for our design which other people can easily reproduce the same or similar model and some pros and cons for each material.

Materials

Materials	Advantages		Disadvantages
3mm Plywood	Very light and easy to cut		Does not last long and fragile
Truck Driving Wheel	It provides a realistic feeling		Going to cost a lot
Cable ties	Easy to use and strong		Lack of durability
Tools
Laser Cutter		Free (From Uni)
Hot Glue Gun		7$ for hot glue gun and 50 glue sticks
Arduino Processor		Free (From Uni)
Sandpaper		Free (got it at home)
Drill		Free (got it at home)

   

Week 1 Resume

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