S13: 2D Plotter
Contents
Grading Criteria
- How well is Software & Hardware Design described?
- How well can this report be used to reproduce this project?
- Code Quality
- Overall Report Quality:
- Software Block Diagrams
- Hardware Block Diagrams
- Schematic Quality
- Quality of technical challenges and solutions adopted.
Project Title
2D Plotter
Abstract
The 2D Plotter is a printing device. The printing device draws in two dimensions in a limited square space. Our project intends to draw a square from a computer-aided design file. Although more is possible, the 2D plotter will only draw a square.
Objectives & Introduction
Show list of your objectives. This section includes the high level details of your project. You can write about the various sensors or peripherals you used to get your project completed.
Team Members & Responsibilities
- Matthias Reimann & William Nguyen
- Hardware Development
- Sergey Tsybanov & William Nguyen
- Driver Development
- Matthias Reimann & Sergey Tsybanov
- FreeRTOS Software Design
Schedule
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Parts List & Cost
| Parts | Cost |
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| 2012 SJ One Board | $65 |
| 3 x Nema 17 Stepper Motors | $33.20 |
| 4 x Steel shapes, round | $14.76 |
| 3 x Stepper Motor Controller | $12.39 |
| Power supply | $10 |
| New wood (various sizes) | $8.94 |
| Breadboard | $7 |
| 6 x Hollow metal tubes | $4.74 |
| 4 to 16 decoder | $3 |
| Old wood | $0 |
| Screws | $0 |
| Old printer gears | $0 |
| Old printer belts | $0 |
| Wires | $0 |
| Glue | $0 |
| Total: | $159.13 |
Design & Implementation
The design section can go over your hardware and software design. Organize this section using sub-sections that go over your design and implementation.
Hardware Design
Discuss your hardware design here. Show detailed schematics, and the interface here.
Hardware Interface
In this section, you can describe how your hardware communicates, such as which BUSes used. You can discuss your driver implementation here, such that the Software Design section is isolated to talk about high level workings rather than inner working of your project.
Software Design
Show your software design. For example, if you are designing an MP3 Player, show the tasks that you are using, and what they are doing at a high level. Do not show the details of the code. For example, do not show exact code, but you may show psuedocode and fragments of code. Keep in mind that you are showing DESIGN of your software, not the inner workings of it.
Implementation
This section includes implementation, but again, not the details, just the high level. For example, you can list the steps it takes to communicate over a sensor, or the steps needed to write a page of memory onto SPI Flash. You can include sub-sections for each of your component implementation.
Testing & Technical Challenges
Describe the challenges of your project. What advise would you give yourself or someone else if your project can be started from scratch again? Make a smooth transition to testing section and described what it took to test your project.
Include sub-sections that list out a problem and solution, such as:
Wifi Connection Issues
Many wifi connection issues were encountered. To solve this problem, a dedicated task was created to re-connect to wifi if the connection was ever lost.
Conclusion
Conclude your project here. You can recap your testing and problems. You should address the "so what" part here to indicate what you ultimately learnt from this project. How has this project increased your knowledge?
Project Video
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Project Source Code
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References
Acknowledgement
Thank you to Matthias, Sergey and William for doing all the hard work. We could not have done it without you.
References Used
List any references used in project.
Appendix
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