We finally got all of our parts for the PCB in this week we began trying to assemble everything but ran into difficulty soldering everything to the board. Some of our components were just too small to hand solder so we likely will have to reflow it.
I also began work on designing a new enclosure for our project:
The plan is to laser cut it out of black acrylic (with the base that the cards sit on our of clear acrylic so the camera and ir sensor can “see” through). Then the plan is to glue the pieces together with epoxy. Once the PCB is completed I’ll begin work on assembling this.