Weekly Progress

Nomina holding the latest version of our project

The team's ukulele project now has functioning parts. 

Some problems that occurred were the stepper motor not strong enough to rotate the pegs to its tighter position. We fixed that by reducing the stepper motor speed.

We have attached all the stepper motors onto the board.

Here are two videos of our project in motion:
Video1 of our progress
Video2

Since we are able to control all four stepper motors, we have decided to strum with one servo instead of picking each string with two servos. We could play a chord and strum.

We have also abandoned the old broken bridge because it failed us. We have replaced it with a more sturdier box around the ukulele.

Out with the old