Alexa’s Status Report for 10/25/25

For our project I worked on the wireless communication from the esp32 to python program on the computer. We want to implement a low latency way of communicating IMU and touch sensor data to our python program for further calculation. In our design report, we evaluate on why we choose the ESP-NOW protocol, for its ease of use with the esp32 model and lightweight setup. It doesn’t require a router, and allows us to do peer to peer communication between the board and a python listener. I wrote the Arduino code for transmitting basic structs, and also the python setup for listening. The next step is to get the testing setup working on our esp32 board, and measuring basic latency values to see if this approach meets our needs.
This week we also all worked in prof Dueck’s class. After this week’s class and discussion, I’m preparing a form for our next session with the music students. The form will be used to analyze user experience, and we hope to get feedback on our general setup in 2 weeks.