At this moment, we have not identified any technical risks pertaining to this week in particular. We believe that, for these semester-long projects, one major challenge that people face in the beginning is the false belief that “the deadline is still far away, we have a lot of time”, which leads to procrastination. There are two main ways to tackle this issue, namely each one of us committing to a personal schedule to complete our tasks and all of us making sure we help each other stay on track. In case procrastination becomes an issue, we can each put more effort into holding each other accountable, and as a last resort we have our buffer time allocated in the schedule.
There were no changes made to the project this week. We used our time to order some of the necessary parts we need for testing next week. Particularly, we are hoping to see how well the 2 feet sensor performs compared to alternatives, and how it works with the Arduino. Moreover, a good amount of time was also spent getting familiar with Pygame.
For the upcoming week, we are mostly planning to allocate our time to the Design Review presentation. We will start preparing the content for the slides on Monday and work on building the presentation throughout the rest of the week.