This week our team performed the interim demo where we showed the integration of the circuit and software sides of our project. Our sensors successfully work with our menu and game screens.
One of the major decisions we took as a team was to discard the “Z” shape of our FSR’s primarily because they lose functionality over the folded region after a point of time. After some deliberation, we have decided to place the sensors in a parallel manner. Based on our testing, this structure is able to detect the footsteps in any orientation.
In terms of our schedule, all the laser cutting for the parts is completed. We are behind on integration of the menu/game screens but plan to have it completed by Tuesday. We will spend the upcoming week integrating our screens, combining the different layers of our mat, and building the circuits on a perfboard.