Finally, after months of work and internal presentations, it was time to present our final product to the world! Since our presentation was after lunch, we spent the morning touching up on Gorilla.irl. We made sure that all our electronics and physical assemblies worked as they should. Thankfully, all of it cooperated with us well […]
Devil in the Details
As everything slowly starts coming together, we start catching hiccups in the electronics or physical assembly that we need to iron out. For instance, we noticed that the servo motor always moved backward upon start-up. Over time, this caused the angle of the launcher to be inaccurate. To solve this, we went back to the […]
Ramping Up Our Efforts
With most of our electronics working in harmony, it was now time to iron out the details for our physical assembly. To recap, so far we have completed the assembly of the control panel, overall assembly and launcher module. One of the biggest thing we needed to assemble was the ramp system for the ball […]
Things are Looking Up
Never thought we would say this, but as per the title, things are kinda looking up! After a couple times of resetting, all our electronics including the sound suddenly worked! Only downside is that our DC motor is not working, but we took inspiration from our friend’s group and decided to use an external power […]
Birth of Gorillas
It was time for our regular check-in with Dr Ho. He suggested we have a scoreboard to keep track of players’ points. We got to work immediately after that and coded our scoreboard as we were procrastinating working with our electronics. We also 3D printed our new buildings which we got a little overboard and […]
…and the headache got worse
Our day in the lab began with the testing of our electronics again, to which all worked except the sound again despite resetting our nano multiple times. *sigh*. We spent a very long time troubleshooting and testing individual components again. It was puzzling as our sound could work on its own but not when it […]
The Headache Returned
Owning a nerf gun made us feel like kids again, and we were excited to disassemble it to figure out its mechanics. However, upon dismantling it and testing certain components, we could not get it to work again which was very strange. The nerf gun has thus become an exhibit in the lab where our […]
Our third round of ammunition.
All our electronics (excluding sound) worked on the first try and we did not have to keep reassembling the components. Small win for us. We figured out it was likely connection issues which caused the inconsistent results, and hence considered soldering the components on the breadboard. In our next check-in session, Dr Ho and Hanyang […]
We jinxed it. Partially.
Finally, our electronics seem to be okay. However some components felt like slacking and refused to work at all. After much struggling again, we slowly reassembled each electronic component and it worked somehow. Tony came by and advised us to use an external power supply like a powerbank instead of our laptops as the servo […]
Things are Looking Okay
As Yong En and Yan Ying were involved in senior’s camp for their orientation, Dini was left alone with the electronics. With help from other groups who were also using SD card readers, we managed to finally sort out the situation with the SD card module. Turns out connecting it to the ICSP port was […]