Today, when I wasn’t on the bus or in class I was building. I took the initial work I did last night and built it up into a mostly usable prototype. I designed the pulleys and sensor mounting brackets in Visio, printed them out, and glued them directly to cardboard in order to skip tedious measurements. If you want to see more details about the process, click on any of the pictures below. They all have captions.
I presented a partially working prototype in class this evening. I couldn’t figure out the direction detection algorithm and didn’t have enough time to start experimenting with my MAX patch.