Team Status Update

This week, we worked on our ethics assignment and thought about ways in which our product would affect users in an ethical manner. One of the cases we thought about specifically was the situation in which someone could control someone else’s device without their consent. We thought about ways in which we could combat this, including limiting information collected from the user as well as security measures to make sure the user knows exactly which keystrokes do what and the risks that come with using the device. Additionally, we received our IMU this week and soldered jumper cables onto it. We will work next week on creating a demonstration for the class as well as working with the IMU to interface it with the ESP32, specifically implementing communication protocols as well as figuring out how to access information from the device. Some risks that could jeopardize the project are, because we received the IMU somewhat later in the semester due to shipping complications, we need to start interfacing and familiarizing ourselves with the software and calibration techniques that come with the device. No considerable changes have occurred to our design, and we are seemingly on track with the rest of the project.