Risks
- Currently, one of our members has been MIA for weeks. He is tasked with the piece movement subsystem of the project and we are not entirely apprised of his progress, we only know he has been attempting to keep track of the linear actuators he ordered, but no further details on his progress. As time passes, the risk that the piece movement subsystem will not be complete becomes higher, and thus, to mitigate this risk, we will soon have to decide whether to cut this part from the project and proceed without him or not. If we were to do this, we would devise some way of informing the user where they need to manually move the opponent’s pieces to.
Changes
- Our design is mostly the same, with the changes detailed in our Design Review. The overall design remains the same, but the details of implementation for some parts have changed. In summary, they are:
- Now modifying existing chess pieces instead of 3D-printing our own
- Using magnets to orient the pieces on the board correctly
- Smaller board size to accommodate the length of affordable linear actuators.
Schedule
- A snapshot of our schedule can be viewed here.
Progress Pictures
- Multiplexer Testing Circuit:
