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Enjoy the fun! ~Chris R-Escobedo

This is the first time that we had all subsystems come together and our PID control converging on a horizontal target shown in green:  Board In Action We have a lot more to do with respect to the tweaking of … Continue reading →

Today we were able to get reliable serial communication from our c program. The problem that we had was that we didn’t wait long enough for the serial connection to be established before sending some initialization parameters to the sketch … Continue reading →

Hello everyone! Chris here with a LARGE update on the status of our ball detection method. I have been working on getting an accurate and fast ball detection method to detect our silver ball as it moves across the labyrinth … Continue reading →

Today we discovered an issue with our rubber band coupling system we put together last Saturday. The rubber band seems to have too much slag even while maximizing our servo-knob distance according to our setup. We will have to get … Continue reading →

Today we’ve managed to mount the servos using Patrick’s sandwiched steel method. The servos are controllable via Chris’s arduino/nunchuk setup. View our video here:

Here’s a sneak peak at what we’ve done with feature detection.

Using a Gearhead 1.3MP webcam with 6 LEDs (not active in the pic) Taken and saved with Apple PhotoBooth Taken and saved with OpenCV OpenCV (w/ added dimensions for 2D filtering)