This week's main goal was get the wrist and elbow movements tested and if they functioned as expected, edit that to incorporate move than simple up, down, left, and right movements. Unfortunately, the elbow motor is still not yet in the picture.
In terms of hardware, the arm had to be disassembles so that a new servo motor compartment could be designed. After getting the assembled arm Wednesday night, not much was done on Thursday with the arm. Most of the troubleshooting was done on Friday, after adjusting the tension of the wires and replacing the servo motor compartment so that they are no longer rubbing on each others, the motors still seemed to be having trouble rotating the whole 360 degrees as expected.
Previously we came down to two conclusions, there was either too much tension on the arm causing the motors to not be able to turn, or the motors were simply not strong enough. After making adjustments and still having difficulty with the motors, it was decided that new motors would be ordered. This decision was taken on Friday, with the motors set to arrive on Saturday June 10th. Once the motors arrive, they will be replaced and tested once again. The new motors are stated to have higher strength which should help in moving the arm parts.
Since this is really holding the group back from moving forward coding-wise; instead of not doing anything at all, I started the report. Within the report, chapters 1, 2, and 4 were worked on. The hope is to have those chapter completed so that the focus could be on chapter 3 which will consist of the bulk of our troubleshooting and contributions.
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