1. What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?
This week I focused mainly on preparing our design presentation, which took up the bulk of my time. On the software side, I set up the FTDI FT2232H development environment and confirmed that I could communicate with the device through the PyFTDI library. I wrote a small script to read raw bytes and log them into binary files, which serves as the starting point for our sector capture module. In addition, I began drafting the recovery workflow at a high level, breaking it into modules for raw capture, error correction, and reconstruction so the codebase will be easier to expand as hardware testing begins.
2. Is your progress on schedule or behind?
I am on schedule. The design presentation was expected to be the main focus this week, and I was still able to make progress on FTDI setup and recovery planning. This keeps me aligned with our Gantt chart milestones.
3. What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Next week, I plan to:
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Improve the byte logging script to handle longer sustained captures.
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Refine the recovery workflow modules with placeholders for error correction and reconstruction.
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Draft the initial structure for a command-line interface (CLI) so testing can be done in a structured way moving forward.