Accomplishments
At the start of the week, our team divided the design report into sections. My part was specifically on system architecture, implementation, project management, risk mitigation, and summary (please refer to the corresponding sections of our design report). While we had big ideas in place, I realized that we needed more concrete plans when actually writing the report. I thus refined our hardware architecture/implementation diagrams, defined how our button controls were going to work, and detailed the hardware-software as well as peripheral interface. In addition, by following the CAD model, I added more products to our parts list.
Our parts didn’t arrive yet, but I started working with the RPi camera module for now. I discussed with Isaiah on the methods we want to use to pass the frames to the software side (function call, direct software management, etc).
I also reached out to the IRB office, explaining our plans for our user study and what processes we need to go through in order to get it approved. The email is included below.
Schedule
Unfortunately, we are currently behind schedule. Our parts are not here, and this has been our bottleneck since the last week. We are discussing plans to cut down the time reserved for our user study from 2 weeks to 1. This way, we’ll have another week to actually work on our product.
Deliverables
Hopefully by next week, our parts would be here. My goal would be to have the camera working and feeding in correctly to our Magic Mirror app.