Some new experience and insights that we have gained through M&T!
- 3D modelling + printing
- Basics of Fusion360 to help us 3D model components necessary for our device to work
- Slicing of the model to gcode where the 3D printer can read the instructions and print
Before the course, we have never known the behind-the scenes of how objects around us are created. We have understand better that designing a product requires much time and effort with numerous modifications, and this progress is still ongoing! Although products are being created, the people will always strive to improve the existing products. Hence, we strongly believe that the designing journey does not end.
- Researching (motors, sensors): things that we didn’t know before and got to know from M&T.
- Different types of motors and sensors and what their functions are
- Type of battery that is best fitted for the motor that has been selected
- Connection between the microcontroller and the motor
Of course, a huge part of the module is contributed by continuous researching! In the market, there are tons of resources and equipment available. Research is an essential way to determine which components are suitable, especially since we have minimal experience prior to electronics (although we study Physics). A surprise to some, right?
- Arduino Coding
- Syntax of arduino
- Libraries and their respective functions
Thankfully, we have learnt how to write basic codes from PS0001 and PS0002. This has undeniably aids us in understanding and editing codes, such that they are compatible to our devices.
All in all, despite the ups and downs in the course, we are glad to have acknowledge one another’s strengths, weaknesses and experiences and distributed equivalent workload. While there were a few aspects that we are not sure of, we managed to work it out together as a team.
We have surely grown together and learnt that good communication with one another is important for efficiency. We believe this would greatly benefits us in our future projects and groupworks.
With that, we would like to end off with a great thank you to the professors and students (and the hardworking 3D printers) for the guidance and regular feedbacks. All the best to everyone!