Monday, December 1, 2008

Group Meeting

With the deadline of the Senior Design Document fast approaching, we met today to discuss the changes we needed to make in our working version of the document. Today also served as a status update for the group; we have gotten a stepper motor to test out our stepper motor drivers, and though the stepper motor is now able to turn, it is not correctly interfacing with the stepper motor driver. We believe that this problem is due to the fact that our stepper motor is unipolar, while the stepper motor drivers we bought are meant to interface with bipolar ones.

Also, in an attempt to fix our problems with interfacing a webcam to the NSLU, we have purchased a NEW webcam (our third for this project) with the hopes that drivers for this new webcam will be able to better interface with the NSLU than the Philips webcam we have been trying all this time.