{"id":326,"date":"2012-06-10T22:34:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T05:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/?p=326"},"modified":"2013-09-24T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T05:24:13","slug":"progress-just-poor-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Progress, just poor updates  ;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good amount of progress has been made despite the lack of updates here.  I expect to have the boat in the water as soon as next weekend (no later than the end of the month).  Finally!! <\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, here's what's been accomplished:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finished up integration with sensors, cleaned up wiring, boxed up the main electronics in an enclosure, finished up 'control panel' with main power switches, LCD display, and display pause\/resume button.<\/li>\n<li>Updated Sail Simulation software to refine navigation logic<\/li>\n<li>Ported navigation code to arduino ide project.<\/li>\n<li>Tested navigation logic by walking around the streets and parks setting waypoints, then letting the hardware tell me how to walk to each location. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What's left?  Not much really, except for testing in the water now.  I'm excited to see how the pictures will turn out from the cameras..   \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I made a quick sweep to update each of the pages where applicable, and included a few new images and a video that might be of interest showing the updated simulator..<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_popup\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/IANlu0ELGU8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/wp-includes\/images\/crystal\/video.png\">Sail Simulation v2 (most recent version)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>'Control Panel'<\/em>  Basically just power switches, an LCD only used to check sensor status, etc before boat is launched, and the green button pauses\/resumes the information cycling on the LCD screen.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_popup\" href=\"http:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/controlpanel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"25%\" width=\"25%\" src=\"http:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/controlpanel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Main electronics getting boxed up<\/em><br \/>\n<a target=\"_popup\" href=\"http:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/boxed_electronics.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"25%\" width=\"25%\" src=\"http:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/boxed_electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sail position sensor<\/em>  (under white silicon are 3 reed switches wired in parallel)  The copper tubing you see in the picture is a rail that magnets attached to the boom (beam under the main sail) slide along.  When they reach either end of the rail, they trip the reed switches indicating the sail is not stalled.  (if it is stalled, that's how we know we need intermediate waypoints)<br \/>\n<a target=\"_popup\" href=\"http:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/sail_sensor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"25%\" width=\"25%\" src=\"http:\/\/distantpulse.com\/serenity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/sail_sensor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good amount of progress has been made despite the lack of updates here. I expect to have the boat in the water as soon as next weekend (no later than the end of the month). Finally!! 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