This week we were able to work on both the hardware and software components of our project. Aryan and Tyler worked exclusively on the iOS application and were able to expand the number of pages to include a Home Page which is navigated to after clicking “Login” or “Sign Up”. This was a big accomplishment as it had been a difficult process finding out how to use buttons to view and update state, especially across files.
We also worked on creating and finishing the database model for the iOS application. We used SwiftUI is built in native database modeling And integrated it within the application. Since Tyler and Aryan Are both new to swift it was very difficult to complete this and a learning curve was quite steep. However, after reading a lot of the documentation we were able to finally finish the implementation. This database will be used to store user profiles as well as authentication details such as login and password. The user profile will consist of name age nickname, favorite drinks, calories consumed etc. This type of information will then be used to collate and create the monthly data inside reports that the app will present to the user
We were also to make significant progress on configuring our peristaltic pumps. Tyler and Thomas have set aside all of Sunday and Monday to build our mechanical foundation for our design as well as the structure for our liquids and peristaltic pumps.
In the upcoming week, we will explore the connection between our software and hardware components, as well as beginning to outline the design we would like our containing structure to have.