For this week, I was particularly involved with the ordering of our necessary parts. As per our Gantt chart, my tasks for the next two weeks will involve testing out the force-sensitive resistors with the Arduino, and finding a way for it to communicate the information to the raspberry pi and Pygame. Both these tasks required us to have the necessary components by the upcoming week. Therefore, a good amount of time was spent choosing the right Arduino board (without headers which we could solder wires to) and the right force-sensitive resistor.
For now, we have decided to go with Arduino Leonardo without headers and 2 feet long force-sensitive resistors (FSR). For the FSRs, I plan to utilize the IDEATE resources to test out other smaller FSRs they already have available. After researching for a bit, the ones I plan to test are:
As for Pygame, I am definitely behind schedule for learning it by this week. Although I am mostly involved with the circuits in the project, I still want to contribute to programming the interface towards the later half of the semester. As such, I have reorganized my schedule next week to completely devote couple of hours to understanding how Pygame works. I will mostly be using resources on Youtube and documentation on Pygame.
I am aware that the Design Review Presentation is due by the end of next week, and I will also be the one presenting. As this will take an ample of time, it may result in the delay of testing the sensors. I plan to make up for it in the following week by allocating more hours to it.