Sprint Review 2!
It’s time for a recap of Falcon! On Friday, November 6th, we had our second sprint review, but the first major one in front of all of the other teams. Overall, I think it was a successful outing! Here is the summary:
Our Team Learning Goals:
- Design attractive electrical and mechanical components
- Low level microcontroller communication
- Maintain thorough and up-to-date documentation
- Identify and prevent software failure modes
- Design an elegant, integrated mechanical system
Our Sprint 0 Kaizen:
Spend the last 15–20 minutes of meetings documenting the significant work completed during the work session.
Our Sprint 2 Deliverables:
- Blog with ongoing documentation ( hint: you’re reading it)
- Purchase of ClearPath Servo Motors & suspension cables (final hardware)
- Path generation and validation
- Arduino control of servos
- Fully built test platform
Our Integrated Product Thus Far:
Our Path Generation Validation:
Our Biggests Current Risks:
- Velocity vs position control for servos
- Communication and latency
- Flexible mounting nodes for full-scale model
- Spooling mechanism
Our Biggest Sprint Decisions:
- Communication protocol — Serial Port vs SPI vs I2
- Documentation style
- Hardware final purchases (motors & cables)
Our Sprint 3 Goals:
- Directional control of camera
- Control servos using Arduinos from Raspberry Pi over I2C
- Website complete (and on POE website)
- Finalized mechanical design
- Power supply purchase
- Continue to document
Our Feedback:
We got 26 responses to our presentation. Among a general feedback and suggestions section, we had these two scaled questions, graphed below:
I think we are on track for a great project! And the people seem to agree. Stay tuned!