This week, we had the interim demo. Vikram and Patrick were able to show off the sensing functionality of the board and firmware, and demonstrated that it can accurately detect the presence of a white piece, black piece, or no piece on each square. Ryan demo’d the account creation, game creation, and game PGN export features of the website.
The upcoming weeks will involve integration with the RPi and the machining of the final board surface and pieces. Our largest risk is that the remaining integration takes longer than anticipated. We are almost a week behind our initial schedule, which leaves us with one week of slack time remaining. We will be making up some time by running some hardware tests in parallel with integration work. As long as integration is not extremely difficult, we should get it done with time remaining for user testing.
We are not making any changes to our requirements or our design this week.
