This week was a productive week for the team. Not only did we all individually make great progress on our components, but have started making steps towards integrating all three together. Most of the week was spent working on our individual components in parallel. For details on each component’s progress, please refer to the responsible team member’s weekly status report.
The chair sensor has been prototyped and tested, with promising results. In addition, the hardware connecting the XBee module and the arduino has been completed, and configurations are underway. On the software side, the Data Hub python code has been installed on a RPi 4, and updated to include the GPIO and serial libraries and functionality. For the web application, the backend has been connected to the database, deployed, and a public API endpoint has been published for Data Hub interaction.
In terms of our schedule, we are slightly behind, but have also realized that our original schedule was slightly ambitious. Despite being behind according to our initial gantt chart, we may still be able to complete integration and testing before Thanksgiving, as planned. This is mainly due to our underestimation of fabrication times, and overestimation of testing difficulty.
Next week, we hope to finish connecting the XBee modules, and complete one integration test, sending data from the chair to the data hub, and finally pushing data to the web app.