Matthew Kuczynski’s Status Report for 4/2

With the PCBs finally coming in, I spent the beginning of the week with my team soldering the components onto the boards in TechSpark. This involved placing the stencil onto each board, spreading solder paste onto each stencil/board, manually placing each component, and placing the boards in the oven. Later, Darwin and I tested the communication from the Arduino, through my subsystem, to the VM that he is testing on, which worked successfully. Then, we began designing a series of tests that will allow us to test the detection algorithms and touch functionality. The idea of theses tests is that rather than getting physical data (since this is still not ready), we will randomly generate realistic data that can be detected, categorized, and sent to the touch functionality. I feel that I am on track, and although the delay on the decoders shipping has shifted the schedule back a bit, our slack time should allow me to still finish on time. Next week, I plan to finish these tests and debug the software with Darwin, and to work on the soldering once the decoders come in.