Week 2 Update

Two members (Gloria and Tanbir) of the group started to initiate the designing process of the arm. At the same time, the other two (Scott and Robert) began their code to program our two servo motors. Firstly, we create a stand to hold both motors and to act as a skeleton prototype to hold the cat upright (see Figure 1). Instructions on how to create the stand can be found in the blog's Tutorial section. We encountered our very first challenge of the project: how to connect the two motors that will help maneuver the xylophone mallet. For now, we are holding the two motors together with tape - a lot of tape. Furthermore, we found an ideal a 3D model of an ideal body we could use (see Figure 2).

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Figure 1: Xylophone Stand

Figure 2: 3D Model Cat

 The following is a short video of testing our motors and its code:

Link To Project's Proposal

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