Team Status Update for 9/30

This week, we did lots of research both on the software and hardware sides of the design. We’re starting to work with the Python libraries required for the mouse tracking part of our project, as well as designing power structures and schematics for the hardware side of the project. The most significant risks at this point involve shipping time and integrity of the parts we ordered. Since we ordered our parts mid-last week, we hope they will arrive in time for us to work on this upcoming week. To mitigate our shipping time, we have chosen to source some of our parts from Amazon, but the integrity of our parts may be compromised in this. To fix this issue, we ordered more than enough parts necessary, so in the event some are faulty, we have backups. We decided to switch from using a nucleo board to using an ESP32 dev board, because of it’s multitude of ADC channels, bluetooth capability, but mainly because of its size. The new board we’ve chosen is a bit over 2 inches, which would comfortably fit in the palm of one’s hand. No other significant changes were made to our design, aside from the fact that we are still in process of figuring out the power structure for our design. We are still largely on schedule, and are awaiting the parts to ship.