This week I did some research into alternative solutions that could simplify some of our final fabrication work (using a knock sensor instead of a pressure sensor) that would avoid the issue of running a wire along the entire length of the staff. We have temporarily decided to include the pressure sensor in the mock-up to ensure it works, and are considering using the IMU for this purpose if no better option presents itself.
I did some programming work in adding our designed spells to our player class structure, and will continue with adding functions that execute on their function.
I have also constructed much of the basic circuit, which is unfortunately incomplete as another teammate needed to use the RPi for sensor testing and we did not sufficiently coordinate our schedules. We plan to finish this work, integrate our systems, and start getting real data for our sensors and running our current code when we meet next.