Thermally Stabilized Packaging

For High Powered Laser

Team Members:
Jordan Pontious - EE Zach Thomas - EE Eric Mitsch - EE
Sam Thornberry - ME Jairus Crabb - ME

Supervising Professor: Jorge Rocca

Industry Advisor: Brendan Reagan

Project Timeline for Spring Semester

Responsible
Date Description Comments Status
Members

Research Stepper Motors

for implementation into
current Design
1/15
- Order raspberry pi
1/19
Initial Team Meeting
Look for feasible stepper motors that we
Eric Complete
can incorporate into our design
Order a raspberry pi in order to replace our
Jordan Complete
current motor controller
Have an initial group meeting with
All advisors in order to gauge goals and Complete
progress from previous semester

Hook up stepper motors Take the newly acquired motors and find a
ECE Team N/A
1/22 to the design way to hook them up to the raspberry pi
-
1/26
Rasb-Pi incompatible with system need to
Rasb-Pi void ECE Complete
find out new ways to run

Order Parts ECE Meet w/Brenden to Order Parts Complete

2/5
- 2/9
Having trouble finding the correct
Research more on
ECE controllers and drives for system due to Complete
Controllers
scope change
2/12
Found Adafruit Motor Shield to control
- Found Controllers/Shield ECE Complete
Steppers through Matlab
2/16

2/19 Meeting w/Reed to help us with our Motor

Need help having
- ECE Problem. Have controllers but they don’t Complete
Steppers move
2/23 seem to move

Motors Start working. Start finalizing code so that testing can be

ECE Complete
Finalizing 2-Cam Code started
2/26
- 3/2
Finished last minute edits
ECE Start Stability Testing Complete
and started testing.

⅗ ​- Fix Stability Test ECE

Running Stability test wrong. Fixed GUI
Complete
and variable mapping out
3/9

3/19
Checked w/Brendan & Rocca want to add
- Check Stability TEST ECE Complete
another camera to test also
3/23

3/26
Start Zotac mini computer adn get all
- “Zotac Implementation” ECE Complete
drives and system working on it
3/30

Start another Test for E-days w/system on

4/2 -
Stability Test/Small Scale ECE and off and also get small scale demo Complete
4/6
system working

4/9 -
E-Day ECE E-Day PREP Complete
4/13

4/16
Team Meetings Close up Set up end of semester goals and what to
- All Complete
Semester Goals do
4/20

Run more stability tests by changing

4/23
Run more Stability/Get certain parameters to try make more stable
- ECE Complete
Deliverables done and also start on getting deliverables and
4/27
next years team suggestions done
4/30 Finish up all Deliverable and get
Finish up All Deliverables ECE Complete
- 5/4 everything to advisors for next years team.