Currently, we have two main risks to focus on. The first is on the drive, the belt is currently prone to slipping which may introduce inaccurate positioning. We are currently planning on mitigating that risk by either tightening the belt, or using a larger pulley on the axle to reduce the required torque, which should reduce the slippage. The second main risk is in the software pipeline, turning images to svg format is challenging and can come out either overly complicated or inaccurate. If we cannot find a good balance of both with our current pipeline, we plan on adding additional steps to help optimize the pathing, or slightly reducing the scope so we can focus more on certain use cases.
We made one major change to the design this week, and that was adding a step of converting the PDF to a PNG before converting it to an SVG, as it allowed us to support more parts of a PDF. Since PDF’s are collections of objects on the page, turning it into a PNG reduced those vary objects to just one kind, pixels. The team as a whole is currently on schedule, and we remain optimistic that we will remain so.