While originally the goal was just to create the basic Nunchuk controlled laser bot, we realized we wanted it to have a much more finalized look to it.
Since we had no place where the acrylic sheet was being used, we decided to cut it up into a box to house the electronics and make it look 'cooler'. The actual bot will sit on the top of the box, being slightly embedded, with the wires going through a hole to the internal Arduino circuit. The Nunchuk wire will go through a hole on the side of box. Depending on how it works out, a hole will also be made for an LCD screen to show the name of the bot. Inside of the box there will be LED's lighting to add some visual appeal.
It was also decided that there will be an option on the controller to go into 'precision mode', where the turning angles will be smaller to make it easier to aim to a specific location. The box, the LCD screen, and the LED's are purely visual features, but they also make it easier to carry around the entire project. It may seem superficial, but if this were ever to be an actual product the visual aspect would be extremely important. No one wants to carry around something with circuits exposed and wires hanging around just waiting to be accidentally ripped out.
All of this was decided during last weeks lab with myself (Andrew Southworth), and Joe Nguyen. Joe met up with Robert Hudson later on that night to discuss this further.
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Andrew Southworth
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