Creating a schematic for the bot

[jakunesh]

A major problem we had last year was only a handful of people knowing where a wire went if it fell out. We are working hard to mitigate that risk this year through a combination of new wire management techniques and the Dark Power project. However it is still helpful to have a document to reference the wireing layout including pins on the beagle bone to the various modules.

This needs to be done fore the Line Following dev-bot and the same thing needs to be created for the new bot as it is built.

This issues specifically pertains to creating the documents and beginning to layout the schematic

[R00ney]

A good way to approach this task is to break the bot into different systems.
Power
Sensors (one for each type)
BBB
Motor Control
Motors (one for each type)
(and any others I may have forgotten).

Then using the wiring google spreadsheet (may need updating), start drawing a schematic for each system, with the local connections and remote connections labeled.
Google Draw might be sufficient for this (which would allow in document editing for future changes).
If not, I recommend using a vector draw software like inkscape.

If you are filling REALLY productive, try linking the remote connections listed in the spreadsheet to their counterpart sheet, ie cell linking as described here:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/QYYrnaqKXwE
and here:
http://igoogledrive.blogspot.com/2013/06/google-spreadsheet-navigate-to-another.html

Cheers for Good Documentation!

[SeanKetring]

I'd love to help out with this, has this task been assigned yet?

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Neal notifications@github.com wrote:

A good way to approach this task is to break the bot into different
systems.
Power
Sensors (one for each type)
BBB
Motor Control
Motors (one for each type)
(and any others I may have forgotten).

Then using the wiring google spreadsheet (may need updating), start
drawing a schematic for each system, with the local connections and remote
connections labeled.
Google Draw might be sufficient for this (which would allow in document
editing for future changes).
If not, I recommend using a vector draw software like inkscape.

If you are filling REALLY productive, try linking the remote connections
listed in the spreadsheet to their counterpart sheet, ie cell linking as
described here:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/QYYrnaqKXwE
and here:

http://igoogledrive.blogspot.com/2013/06/google-spreadsheet-navigate-to-another.html

Cheers for Good Documentation!

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Thank you, and have a good day!
Sean Ketring

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate

[jakunesh]

@SeanKetring All yours

[whiteskulleton]

Hey. I have an application called AutoCAD electrical that might help with doing this but I don't know how to use it or anything about it. I just know that if you make a schematic that shows all the wiring that you can import it into Inventor and I can do modeling with it. However, as I said, I don't know how to use the program but you can get it for free on Autodesk's website through the education community.

[jasteve4]

The wiki has been a great help.