Note: Our team has compressed our images, but the image upload quota is still full, so this report does not have photos and videos that we would have liked to attach.
This week I helped with manufacturing our MVP prototype visor which involved a large amount of sanding and glueing. Once the Visor had been assembled I was able to perform water intrusion testing. The water intrusion testing consisted of me taking the Visor to my apartment and using my shower as our source of rain. I had previously measured the flow of my shower and determined that it was equivalent to a 1.5″ per hour storm. The sensor cavity resisted the storm quite well with no measurable water accumulation inside the cavity but the surfaces were damp. Once the water testing had been performed I was able to complete the electrical integration of the Visor. Since I had a large amount of this started this only took a day of passing the wires through the pass-throughs and verifying the connections. Finally we were able to perform our mounting tests and rode a bike around with the visor mounted. The mounts seemed very stable and did not imped the use of the bicycle.
I would say that our progress is on track since we are pretty much ready to run our full integration tests.
In the next week I will run the full integration tests.
Most of my new knowledge was specific to some of our components such as the libraries for interacting with the sensors. Lots of this learning was done through the posted documentation and some forum posts. Additionally it was helpful to use LLMs such as Chat-GPT to help find and summarize documentation that could then independently be inspected. We also learned a lot from the various people that we had meetings with such as Prof. Micheal Taylor and Cody Soska from IdeAte which helped with our system design.
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