Jade Wang’s Status Report For 3/27/2021

This week, I met with Bradley and Jenny several times to make progress in our pen hardware after meeting with Professor Kim on Monday. After Bradley assembled the initial pen hardware, we all met up to help debug his assembly on the breadboard. We explored several Arduino MPU6050 libraries to get our code to read in the accelerometer/gyroscope data. After finishing that, we wired the Bluetooth piece to try and read in the data via Python code. The Bluetooth libraries available for MacOS are fairly outdated so we had to pivot several times. PyBluez, Sockets, and BLE libraries all did not work. Eventually, we resorted to pivoting to a different operating system and decided to use Windows.

Additionally, I created some initial wireframes for our GUI design using Figma: