Risks

The main risk we foresee right now is the required tile clock speed being too fast to be driven by IR LEDs. As a contingency, we would have to loosen our requirement on our compile time. However, we are fairly confident that we can overcome this issue by reducing parasitic capacitance and specing out higher quality components.

Changes

Our backup battery circuit turned out to be not as trivial as we thought, and will require some more research and tinkering. In terms of overall design and implementation, no major changes have been made this week.

Schedule

We updated our Gantt chart to reflect more details, especially regarding the interpreter implementation and the embedded logic. Now, rather than having about a month dedicated to a vague task of, for example, implementing the interpreter, we have broken down our tasks into manageable 1 week chunks. A picture of the updated Gantt chart can be found below: