This week, our team discussed and finalized the final aspects of our design, and spent a good deal of time working on the design review, which involved both preparing for the presentation as well as writing the report. Many of the parts we ordered arrived, so we were able to start experimenting with them, such as comparing the parts with each other and seeing how well they would fit together. Seeing the parts in person also allowed us to confirm and modify features of our design to accommodate our parts.
The most significant risks of our project continue to be successfully completing the gantry as well as having a robust and accurate image processing algorithm, but no new risks to our project have been assessed since our last status report.
Some minor changes were made to the existing design of our system. We changed the dimensions for some of the parts of our gantry system to better accommodate the parts we have received and their measurements; for example, we finalized the dimensions of our gantry frame to be 18 inches by 18 inches. This change does not come at a cost, as the parts we ordered are flexible and can be cut or modified to different lengths and sizes. Minor changes were made to our block diagram for clarity and to better convey the flow of information, but the actual design of our system has not significantly changed.
One setback our team faced this week is that a miscommunication and careless typo on our end caused us to accidentally order an extra Raspberry Pi motor shield instead of the Raspberry Pi. As a result, some of the testing and experimenting that we wished to do with the Pi this week has to be postponed due to not having the Pi yet. In place of working with the Pi, the team instead focused its efforts on other tasks to make up for it. We have updated our schedule to have more detailed tasks as well as reflect our scheduling updates.
