The Work Schedule
A detailed version with tasks specifically laid out can be found by clicking here.
Hour Analysis
Our initial estimates for how long the project would take were vastly underestimated the total time actually spent on the project. Each portion is actually broken down as follows.
The majority of the work on the sensor tower was spent testing different circuit configurations, trying to find the one that gave the best range with the given materials. 4 hours designing the sensor tower frame, 13 hours were spent printing the sensor tower frame, 4 hours having it stay in a lye bath to get the support material off, 3 hours testing the LED sensors, 7 hours soldering the wires, 2 hours wiring and testing the connections 4 hours trying different circuit configurations and 2 hours testing the final code. That breaks down to 17 hours of waiting and 22 hours of work. Of those 22 hours, 9 were spent developing. Therefore, mimicing our work should be 17 hours of waiting and 13 hours of direction following to create the sensor tower.
For the constuction of the platform 3-4 hours was spent designing and making revisions to the designs. The motor mounts took 1.5 hours to print and spent 2 hours sitting in the lye bath. Putting the platform together including revisions made to correct problems took approximately 3 hours. With all of the plans already in place in a well equipment workshop this could be cut down to about an hour. The coding for the motor controls including calibration for speed and turns took 3 hours.
