week of 9/15 - 9/20 2024

To start this week I tried to print out the Archimedes screw I had designed, however, when I printed it, it got about 1/4 of the way done before it got messed up and had to be stopped. The printer was also having some general issues, so I decided to put the printing off until it was fixed.

I decided to begin coding instead, so I started by setting up the motor driver that I planned to use. It was a little bit weird, so it took longer to set up than I thought it would. After I set it up, I came up with an idea to have three different buttons that would dispense a different number of balls so one could use however many they wanted instead of one at a time or just constant. This took a while and class was short on Thursday because of gym but I am almost done with the code and plan to print out the screw again next week.

I am still finishing up the code and plan to finalize it on Friday, making it more clean and creating defines for each value I use.