Hi again, this is a quick post about my schedule for this GSoC. Made after meeting my mentors for a kickoff meeting, which was great by the way. As I already mentioned a bit in my first post is there a slight change. I will still be working on the documentation these first few weeks ‘till July 14. August 8 I hope to start working on the kinematic loops for which I will have to research some other solutions for as well. At last I hope to implement add some more joints. The part which I will probably skip is adding option to define the orientation of a joint using quaternions. But overall I think it is going to be a nice fun challenge.

Issues and PRs I’ll be working on:

  • Opened a draft PR adding four bar linkage example which uses the joints framework.
  • While working on the PR above I raised an issue on the visibility of images when using the new dark theme.
  • This week and next week I expect to work on the issue about creating a figure to explain the joint parameters.
  • Hope that this PR, which would reduce Point.acc dependency on computed velocities, can be merged.

Some other opened issues an PRs, which I have open, but am not currently working on:

  • Issue about using a recursive calculation of the velocity in the Point.vel method
  • Draft PR which adds a check on the velocity and acceleration theories as mentioned in the old PR