TASK BREAKDOWN
March 30 through April 12
- Evan
- Redesigned laser assembly
- Decided Schmitt triggers were unnecessary once phototransistors were tested and they produced
- 5 V across an emitter resistor with the laser shining and less than 0.5 V without the laser
- Determined how we want to make the sailboat move depending on wind magnitude and direction,
- rudder adjustments, and sail height involving 16 directions
- Dawn
- Designed 5x5 figures for sailboat
- Brought Legos from home back from spring break
- Adapted code from website and previous labs to work with Atmel Mega32 microcontroller rather than
- Mega 163 in order to display onto television
- Both
- Reviewed feedback on project proposal
- Created parts list and realized that the original design for the laser assembly using
- half-silvered mirrors, mirrors, eight phototransistors, and one laser was above set price limit
- Found required parts for new design: four phototransistors and four lasers
- Built Lego platform for laser and phototransistor assembly
- Wrote first progress report
April 13 through April 19
- Evan
- Wrote first implementation of sailboat movement on screen with wind and rudder input
- Soldered wires to phototransistors
- Taped lasers and phototransistors to Lego platform
- Wrote second progress report
- Dawn
- Designed and coded all screens including instructions and maps for game
- Implemented clear screen and accounted for timing required to display onto television
- Only 14 large characters or about four lines can be drawn at a time
- Designed map so that ship can travel on area totaling four television screens
- Relearned HTML and created outline for entire website
- Both
- Finalized Lego platform
- Tested code and helped each other when possible in wiring and testing code
April 20 through April 26
- Evan
- Finished programming for sailboat movement including effects from wind, sail, and rudder
- Programmed and tested firing of cannonball
- Programmed and tested for collisions between sailboat and land
- Determined pirate movement
- Added cannon capability to pirates
- Dawn
- Programmed and tested switching between screens on television
- Programmed and tested indicator functionality within game
- Wired phototransistors to breadboard and tested laser design with microcontroller
- Continued progress on web pages: Task Breakdown, References, Cost List, Schematics, etc.
- Wrote third progress report
- Added and tested all treasure and scoring functions
- Both
- Integrated code and discussed what tasks needed to be done
- Tested each others code and functionality and added input
- Determined important logic for cannons, collisions, etc.
April 27 through May 2
- Both
- Wrote information for website
- Finished debugging problems with pirate movement and cannons