Author: mbossard

This Sunday, we did some prep work for the presentation that was on Monday. We finished up deciding on all of our requirements, by thinking about being a cat owner and what they would need. We also polished up the slides, which Lucas presented on Monday. I helped out a with designing the slides as well as input as a cat owner and re-doing the hand-drawn diagrams and was responsible for testing & verification slides, gantt chart, and the division of tasks/labor slides.

We also met up after class to start setting up the raspberry pi and also Lucas and  I started taking a look at the robocat one more time. Because the pieces were messed up, we decided to reprint those pieces.

Lastly, I’ve been doing lots of research this week on how to use the bluetooth on the raspberry pi, and looked at ble5, and how to setup the rasbpi the way I want to. Tarush and I will be finishing up setting up the pi in the lab tomorrow and I will be initializing setup for the bluetooth module as well. I’ve also thought through some hardware diagrams in order to receive interrupts or poll for inputs from the ble device (tags) and make threads to run each of these at once.

This week we’ve been working on setting up this website, finishing up our proposal slides, and met with Edward and Prof. Mukherjee.

I’ve specifically been doing some different things for the proposal presentation. One of the main things I’ve done is get any drawings done for the team to visualize our solution approach in abstracts and in our presentation. I’ve also finished up the slides for testing verifications, the gantt chart, and individual tasks and labour.

As for our meeting with Edward and Prof. Mukherjee, we had a great conversation on justifying some of the more fine tuned details our project. We spent the rest of the week deciding on what would be the best things to add to our project to improve on our web app as well as justifications for our design choices.

The last main responsibility I’ve had is generally organizing time management so we finish things on time.

I would say in terms of progress I feel we are on time. Our proposal presentation is almost done and gives ample time for me to practice my presentation tomorrow, and we have justified a lot of our solution and have a great plan going forward with the project.