Archives: October 2014

Client Meeting – Oct 28, 2014

These meeting minutes were taken by Maria.

Meeting Minutes – October 28th, 2014

Attendees: Eric Molendyk (E.M.), Maria Serbanescu (M.S.), Mustafa Mussayev (M.M.), Oscar Yang (O.Y.), Weng Fei Yu (W.Y.), Michael Li (M.L.), Duane Geddes (D.G.), and two other Capstone groups

Location: Tetra Society office, Suite 318 – 425 Carrall Street, Vancouver BC

Topics of Discussion Meeting Notes (bolded lines indicate action items)
Intro Overview of Sam Sullivan Disability Foundation and Tetra Society by D.G.

We are welcome to join any volunteer meetings (next one is Nov 17 at 7pm at APEGBC office in Burnaby)
Project Resources We can have access to:

  • Woodworking shop
  • Metalworking shop
  • Water jet cutter
  • Wheelchair
  • Volunteer engineer brainstorming session

We just have to ask and give enough notice
IP / NDA Forms M.S. to send IP / NDA forms to Eric for signing
Project Specific Max weight for load cell: 500 – 600 lb

Error tolerance: ± 5 lb

E.M. to send M.S. wheelchair dimensions

M.S to send E.M. project proposal
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Group Meeting – Oct 23, 2014

This week we met with our instructor and TA about our first prototype. We spent some time discussing technical details and planning. Our goal for the first prototype is to get our electrical components working (excluding the power and motor circuit). We finalized most of the parts to order and got approval to begin ordering. We split up the work as follows:

Michael, Weng Fei and Mustafa:

– Getting the weight signal (load cell/amp/ADC)

– Zeroing the scale (microcontroller/push button)

Maria and Oscar:

– Displaying weight (microcontroller/LCD)

– Converting units (microcontroller/toggle switch)

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Group Meeting – Oct 16, 2014

We had our presentation on Tuesday and submitted our proposal. Now we need to get started on the first prototype. We have made a spreadsheet outlined all of the major components we need to obtain for this project. We plan to have filled in the spreadsheet with various options for each part by Tuesday, Oct 21st. We will meet that day, analyze our options, and decide on which parts to order.

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Group Meeting – Oct 7, 2014

We met today to work on our proposal presentation. We decided to split up the work such that each team member completes the section of the presentation that corresponds to the section of the proposal that they were responsible for:

Maria – Intro, Project Description, RCGs

Michael – Proposed Solution #1

Oscar – Proposed Solution #2

Weng Fei – Proposed Solution #3

Mustafa – Comparison and Conclusion

The presentation slides and script will be complete by Sunday. Maria will present the first half of the slides and Mustafa will present the second half. After practicing the presentation individually, we will meet on Tuesday to run through it as a team before we present.

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