Team Status Report for 2/19

The most significant risks that we had to consider over the past week were fleshing out the details of our project, and how exactly we would be building each component of our project, so that we can put together a complete device. We have managed both risks by breaking down our project into modular portions, and writing out what we need to do in order to complete each model, mainly through the use of a schematic. After discussing with our TA and Professor, we realized we had to focus on how we would fix issues with the camera recognizing our user. Ideally, these issues can be solved by designing our project well from hardware and software aspects, however as a contingency, we can also test what distance the user needs to stand from the mirror in order for it to function best, and guide the user using that information. We have also been focused on making sure that we are able to acquire the hardware components necessary to make our project function, which we managed by making use of the ECE inventory, and ordering our desired parts as early as possible. This makes the overall project much more straightforward and simple.
We have made some changes to our use-case requirements after discussion with a TA and a Professor, giving ourselves many more requirements, as well as elaborating on them more in our presentations. We rebuilt our block diagram, making it much more detailed, and bringing it up to the standards that we’ve seen our classmates set. This change also pushed us to figure out some the details that we needed to settle to understand how we would deliver on some of the aspects of our project. We have also decided to install LED lights within our device, and potentially add to the UI to guide the user to the best distance that they should stand at to use our mirror. This change was necessary because our team realized that some aspects of our project were dependent on the users lighting and surroundings, which may vary from user to user beyond our control.
We have ordered several of the parts we need, and made a lot of progress on our design presentation, and hope to be able to provide a good presentation and begin working on our first implementations next week.