Bill:
I worked on building cup platform by drilling and cutting wood and integrating/screwing the load cell into the wood.
Next week, I will continue working on getting the cup platform ready and hope to finish building it by the end of next week.
Connor:
This week, I continued working on the API and the web applications. I began to work on the admin application, where admins can edit, create, and delete recipes and bottles.
For this upcoming week, I hope to finish both the API and the web applications. Because I will be out of town this weekend and away from the town, I hope to focus on work and finish all the parts of the project that don’t require integration with physical components of the project.
Dave:
I worked on connecting the Raspberry Pi with multiple pumps. I tested out the Pi to simultaneously pumping out liquids with multiple pumps, and the pump rate is approximately the same as we originally tested with a single pump. Also, I have placed orders on all the rest electronic devices. I didn’t have time to integrate the queue and database with Connor, but I would do that over Thanksgiving.
The plan Thanksgiving week is to finish the software part on the Pi and after coming back on the weekend, I would mount the two hats and test all pumps together.
Overall:
We feel that we are in a good position to complete our project by the December 7th, which is demo day for us. If we can complete the pure-software portion of the project by the end of next week, we can focus on finish the integration between the API with the Raspberry Pi, which will help de-risk the rest of the project. We didn’t have any design changes so we should be good on that front. We also have found a source for the wood that we will use for the cover of the system which has helped us greatly de-risk the system. While we still need to complete the rest of the hardware integration, we are increasingly de-risking our project by working on the load cell platform and testing the multi-pump system. Here is our updated schedule.
