In the week leading up to the beginning of Fall Break, our team’s focus was on writing the design review report. I contributed to sections such as the Abstract, Use-Case Requirements, and the relevant hardware sections within the Design Requirements, Design Trade Studies, System Implementation, and Test, Verification, and Validation sections. I also contributed to the Bill of Materials and Schedule sections.<\/p>\n
Over Fall Break, I finished the schematics and started the board layout which means that I am behind schedule on the hardware portion of my work. I meant to finish the layout and order the board during Fall Break, but certain things came up preventing me from doing so. To mitigate this issue, I will work for the next couple of days to finalize the board and during the time when it is being fabricated and shipped to me, I will work on bringing up the Raspberry Pi so that the two can easily interface once the PCB arrives.<\/p>\n
My goals for this coming week are to finish the board layout and order it, as well as finish setting up the Raspberry Pi with a monitor and keyboard. Finally, I want to set up a simple I2C polling procedure code with the Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n
As you’ve now established a set of sub-systems necessary to implement your project, what new tools are you looking into learning so you are able to accomplish your planned tasks?<\/em><\/p>\n One tool that I have put many hours into learning for this project is Altium Designer, which is a PCB design software. I had no experience with Altium before this course, and minimal exposure to PCB schematics and layout. Additionally, I am learning how to interface with the Raspberry Pi which is also new to me.\u00a0 In regards to writing code for the Raspberry Pi, I have been learning more about Python packages that are available to me for\u00a0 communication with I2C devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the week leading up to the beginning of Fall Break, our team’s focus was on writing the design review report. I contributed to sections such as the Abstract, Use-Case Requirements, and the relevant hardware sections within the Design Requirements, Design Trade Studies, System Implementation, and Test, Verification, and Validation sections. I also contributed to … <\/p>\n