Completed tasks

• Wrote an application for an embedded board I made.
• Used the application for controlling an output and reading an input related to my final project.

Materials for the mechanical structure

Item	Quantity	Details
Hyper PLA	2 Kg	Used for the main structural components.
TPU-95HF	1Kg	Used for compliant appendages and wheel-leg pads.
3 mm x 30 mm aluminum bars	10 units	Used as a guiding element for the linear actuators.
Aluminum couplers	4 units	Used for connecting the PLA wheel-legs to the DC motor metallic shaft.
M3 x 20 mm PCB Copper Spacers	8 units	Used for separating the upper and lower PCBs.
M3 x 10 mm PCB Copper Spacers	4 units	Used for separating the upper and lower PCBs.
3 x 18650 Battery holder	1 unit	Used for holding the batteries that power the entire system.
12-volt Micrometal DC motor with encoder	4 units	The motor torque should be 2.2 kg x cm in order to fully move the system.
12-volt Micrometal DC motor with M3 x 30 mm worm screw with hexagonal nut.	4 units	This motor is used for the linear actuators and should have a torque of 2.2 kg x cm.
Limit switch sensor	8 units	This sensor is used to detect the position of the linear actuators.
M2 x 20 mm screw	20 units	These screws are used to secure the limit switch sensors and the camera.
M3 x 20 mm screw	160 units	These screws are used to secure assembled the wheel-legs and PCBs into the robot structure.

Video demonstration

The following video demonstrates the functionality of the overall system:

Files

Here are the downloadable files for this week:

Sources codes for this week

Reflection

Although I still prefer using LabVIEW over Qt Designer or other UI development platforms, I can appreciate the advantages this platform offers. Nevertheless, this assignment has enabled me to develop a tool that I will certainly use during the debugging phase of my final project.