Reid’s Status Report for 2/27/21

This week, I worked on presenting and preparing the slide deck that we worked on. I worked on the technical requirements slides about navigation and infraction detection, as well as technical challenges and preliminary design. I was a little rushed on the presentation but overall I think I was able to communicate Drivaid’s purpose and technical components. One question that arose was how we needed a GPS tracking device connected to the Arduino that sends info to the Google Maps API to tell if a driver is slowing down for a stop sign/traffic light. I settled on the Adafruit ultimate GPS because of its precision and 10Hz updates, which should be frequent enough for precision mapping and location updates. I worked on a preliminary parts list as well which we plan on submitting to the TAs, which includes the PiCan, cables, GPS, and RaspberryPi. I also started researching how difficult it would be to not use the PiCan2 at all and instead use a OBD2 to USB to hook into the RaspPi’s USB port – we will discuss this as a team either later tonight or tomorrow since it would be a substantial change to our initial design.