Accomplishments
This week I practically completely finished assembly of the glove PCB. The only components which are missing are the haptic motor driver, which still needs to be acquired from Ideate; the LDO output capacitor, which ran out of stock on Digikey and will likely be acquired from Roboclub; and the LDO itself, as we identified a manufacturing issue that ensures we need to do extra work in order to attach the LDO to the PCB. A picture of the PCB soldering progress can be seen below. We also realized this week that due to an ordering error, we did not order all of the components needed for our Kar PCB, so these extra components have been ordered.
Progress/Schedule
PCB assembly is going according to schedule. The Kar PCB missing components would have led to a setback if it had been noticed later, but it was noticed promptly at the beginning of last week which means we will be able to smoothly transition between assembly of the glove PCB and assembly of the Kar PCB.
Next Steps
I will finish the assembly of the glove PCB tomorrow (11/1), and assuming the Kar PCB components arrive on Monday I will begin and complete the Kar PCB assembly leading up to the interim demo.