What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?
This week I focused on testing our newly assembled PCBs and finalizing project documentation for FlashRescue. The boards arrived from assembly (revision 2) and I’ve been systematically validating their functionality.
I conducted initial power-on testing of the assembled boards, verifying proper voltage regulation across all power rails and checking for shorts or assembly defects. The USB power delivery circuits are functioning as expected based on our design specifications. I began functional testing of the power cycling subsystem, which controls USB power delivery for the data recovery process.
I also continued work on our project documentation, expanding the technical implementation details and organizing our design decisions into a coherent format for the final report. This includes documenting the PCB design rationale, component selection criteria, and system architecture. We want our documentation to stand out and clearly communicate our technical approach.
Additionally, I made progress on the PDF recovery debugging from last week, implementing fixes to the parsing logic for handling cross-reference tables.
I handled everything for the project this week.
Is your progress on schedule or behind?
We’re back on schedule now that the boards have arrived and passed initial testing. The assembly turnaround was faster than expected for a revision 2 board, which helped us recover from previous PCB delays. Having functional hardware puts us in a good position to complete integration testing on time.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
just doing well in the final demo!