Week 3 Meeting: 4-16-15

During the meeting the arduino's voltage was tested again. Multiple codes were used but the voltage wasn't as reliable as hoped. The voltage reading from the wire just sitting there was above 1 and less than two, when the ball touched the wire the voltage went below one or to five. However whenever something else touched the wire it gave a voltage lower than one which would make using voltage unreliable since if something else touches the wire it could read it as the ball. Different sensors have been brought up and the members are brainstorming which sensors will be most reliable. Vibration sensors were one of the sensors brought up but with the machine having buttons that have to be pushed there is fear that those vibrations will cause the sensors to go off. If a vibration sensors was used then an idea to counter the button pushing would be a tilt sensor so if the player hits the buttons too hard or shook the machine then the machine would stop loading points and alert the player they shook the machine too much. When the tilt sensor stops sensing then it will allow points to be rewarded again.