Got many new items! RFC tags! Knowledge on powering many components with the battery! More LED rings! Micro servo motor!

After a busy day at the Techhub... Ale was able to obtain an open printer!! So, more parts are coming along.

Pat worked on whether the RFID detects the RFC tag in parallel to the LEDs "breathing." This site was very helpful: RFID Reader Module. Problems to notice here are that the RED/no Hexcore mode is choppy in fading in and out because it takes longer to get the request from RFID when no RFC tag is present. We also want the transition to be smooth from RED to BLUE (i.e. when all the LEDs are off, switch the colors).

VIDEO 1

We realized that we were requesting the RFID to detect the presence of a RFC tag too often, therefore causing the choppy transitions. We only need to check the presence of the RFID within the period of fading in/fading out, which is approximately a 2-second period. Therefore, that allowed less interruptions to the LED brightness changes, leading to smoother transitions. Also, Pat added the changes to the LEDs' colors to occur in a stack (LIFO), so the changes would occur when the conditions of all the LEDs being off and the length of the list of colors being greater than 2 (indicating a need to switch) were fulfilled. Therefore, we get this:

VIDEO 2

Next things to work on: more 3D-printing, servo-gear jaw mechanism, and soldering power connections to the battery. Time to sleep...