Week 12 - Spartan Superway Controls

This week, we presented our second presentation. We went through how the GUI works and cleared up with other groups what work needs to be done for us to create a working bogie. We plan to have a working prototype in the next few weeks once a track is built, a bogie is made, and a pod is printed.

This week, we started working on collision detection by attaching the ultrasonic sensor to the Arduino. We were able to get the control system to stop when an object is detected and resume once there is nothing blocking the sensor. From this, we can start working on different ways to implement it, such as matching the speed of the pod in front.