This week, as a group, we primarily focused on planning our goals for the interim demo and engaging in discussions about the ethical concerns of our project. For our interim demo, our current stretch goals are to allow a user to input text into the notes feature of a finished web-app. We aim to display the braille translation and output these signals to our mechanical x/y system and our solenoid system. We will have these two systems decoupled for our demo and will work on integrating for our final product. For ethics we discussed, safety concerns of giving a blind user an electrical device and how it contributes to the welfare of our blind users.
As for the components of our project, this week we focused on our individual components. Zeynep worked on the front-end of the webapp, Becky finished the pcb and sent it out, and Joshna worked on setting up the rpi and the braille translation algorithm.
Overall, our design has had no major changes. We are currently working on integrating our back-end and front-end components building up the interm demo and are on track.