Accomplishments

This week I worked on completing the preliminary layouts for all of the boards. With our chosen design for our hand controls, we were able to solidify our IMU choices and get back on track for our board design schedule. Now that we have decided to use two IMUs for the hand controller, two boards were required for the glove: one for the primary microcontroller on the back of the hand, and one for the IMU on the fingers. This required some extra work like selecting connectors and a cable for connecting between the two boards, so that the power, ground and SPI lines could reach the IMU. The one bottleneck for board design is that the Kar PCB sizing is still a little bit uncertain, as we do not yet know where the holes for the Kar PCB will be. This will be solidified when the Kar arrives and is measured; it has already been ordered.

Progress/Schedule

Progress is essentially back on schedule, although ideally all the layouts would have been done by now. However, adding holes to the PCB should be a very quick process once the Kar arrives.

Next Steps

This coming week I will be working on purchasing many of the components we need for the boards, as well as potentially putting in orders for the PCBs + assembly as well. I will need to see what the order process is for boards in order to do this.