Francesca’s Status Report for Oct 18

This week, I finished my sections for the design report.  With the entire group, we reworked our design components, and were deciding between a one motor and three motor implementation. We decided to focus on one as our actual plan in the design report, and the other would be a backup contingency plan. We decided that it would be easy to pivot between the two implementations so long as we have the components, so we budgeted for several motors in our plan. We’ll be able to quickly reprint small 3D printed parts on campus on demand, so we are not worried about this part. We are a bit behind on ordering parts, as Abby mentioned. The original plan was to submit this to our TA over fall break, but this ended up not happening. We’ll order the parts in class this upcoming week, and we can still test software like Tesseract or CAD designs in the meantime, so I am not too worried about this. This coming week, I hope to help my teammates with the CAD and 3D print, but on my end, I would like to spend my time testing Tesseract so we know that our OCR software is extremely reliable before we start physically building the device in coming weeks. I’m hopeful we can find a way to automate such testing, which was suggested by a TA during our proposal presentation.