Weekly Progress Report Part 2 10/18 - 10/24

This past Thursday, we met with Mr. Lin and succeeded in creating a block system diagram which we will follow in order to create and connect the launcher to the vision system. We decided which point would be the divider in what our group will do and what the vision system will do.  We came to the agreement that we need to figure out first how we are actually going to receive the data being sent from the vision group (as the computer will already have processed the information and have sent the velocity and other info such as projected position). Thus we really need to look into the wireless receiving capabilities of the cortex micro controller and see if we can send the info to the cortex micro controller via some open source method. If we can’t find an open source method to do so then we will look to see if someone has figured out how to hack the cortex micro controller to give it data receiving capabilities.  If that path fails then we will have to see if something has been done on the PIC micro controller as it has been around much longer thus it is much more likely that someone has either hacked it or there is an open source method for receiving data.  Then we need to get the micro controller to process the data and send the corresponding command to the launcher and have it fire at the projected position of the drone. We will proceed by editing our Gantt chart and making progress on our task.