Bradley Zhou’s Status Report for 3/27/2021

This week, I worked on the hardware and software prototyping of the pen. First, I constructed the circuit on a breadboard, connecting the arduino, accelerometer, and bluetooth module. After ensuring the accelerometer worked and accurately reported data through the serial monitor, I explored various options for getting bluetooth to work. We had originally anticipated being able to use a python library called PyBluez, but it was severely outdated and did not have robust support on macOS. I ended up using a library called pySerial to enable this bluetooth connection. This allows us to feed the accelerometer data to the python program that will track the pen. I took a video of our progress and uploaded it to the slack to demonstrate our progress.