For this week, I helped our team further our design process. I worked on creating our design diagrams that would depict how our subsystems would work individually as well as how they would interface with each other. I also tried to research ways to power up our paddle wirelessly. After doing some research about manually building voltage converters, I came across some products that are specifically built to convert to 5 volts from various different voltages, so I think eventually, we can try to acquire some of those products. Our sensors arrived this week, but we were missing SD cards, so I had to wait for that order to come through, and I was able to pick up the SD card towards the end of the week. With that, I should be able to begin playing around with the sensors and the Raspberry Pi next week.
I didn’t quite meet last week’s goal because our materials haven’t fully arrived. However, I think that we should still be on track as a team as my goal last week could have been a little ambitious, seeing that we still had to hash out some design issues. That said, I think now that our materials have arrived, I can begin tinkering with them so that our team will keep pace.