This week, I spent time working on the design report and on my electron application.
This last Sunday afternoon, My teammates and I found an empty table in Gates and hunkered down to write our design report. The design report probably the biggest overarching document that we have worked on this semester for capstone. As such, it required us to finally fully flesh out any last questions we had about our project.
The first thing we did was go over our presentation feedback from the week before. It was helpful and informative to be critiqued before we wrote this design report, but since the feedback was released late in the week we unfortunately did not have time to meet with our advisors. Even so, we had a discussion about our feedback, and finally nailed down in detail the ins and outs of our testing mechanics. This is one of the sections that I think we have been hand waving the most since the beginning, so it was nice to finally have that settled.
Writing the report took much longer than I expected. What was scheduled to be an afternoon work session ended up being a whole day commitment. We divided up the report into sections and then reviewed each other’s drafts to make sure we were all on the same page.
The next morning, after our capstone discussion about the Pentium Chronicles, we did a final review pass of our design report. After another hour, we finally submitted our report.
After discussing with Sullivan, we also finalized our parts order. Luckily for us, Sullivan had a bunch of cables and a guitar that we could use. We submitted a first order for some pedals and some other small items.
The rest of my time was spent on working on my election application. I spent some more time looking up documentation and tutorials for different electron development practices. There are a lot of “boiler plates” that we can use that opens the door up for specific development stacks (different boiler plates helped users set up React, Angular, and Vue, among other things). I took a look at some of those found at electronforge.io and continued working on the app.
Next week is Spring Break! Unfortunately, I do feel like I need to make significant progress this week to stay on track. So, I plan on spending an afternoon in Cancun working, as well as working when I get back to CMU on Friday.