This week we caught up to our Gantt Chart and got ourselves back on schedule by performing the first two integration tests. Using Kayla’s thoroughly researched experimental protocol, Tarana was able to record data for both a single electrode and an array of electrodes, and play the games that Alex has been working on the past few weeks. Our first integration test featured a single electrode and a very basic game that involved moving a ball around, which was designed solely to test the functionality of putting our entire system together with a much simpler system, such that expanding it with more complex components would be easier. The second integration test featured a beta version of the MyoRun game Alex has been working hard this semester to make, and using a single electrode to test our ability to integrate into that. 

What we have found is that by using both Serial and UDP communication protocols, we are able to seamlessly read in data from our sensors and output it into the game in real-time, which was one of our biggest concerns going into the project. Now that we have all of the systems laid out and in place, we will spend time improving them and making them more robust. Next week, Kayla and Tarana will be working on the signal processing to analyze the data, and Alex will be improving the game by adding randomized obstacles.

Media for our first integration test can be found here.