This week, I was able to catch up on some work I was behind on. I was able to create a BOM of all the hardware we are going to need to purchase for the project so far, including doing power consumption analysis of all the hardware to determine the approximate specs of a battery that we would need. It turns out that we are either going to need a pretty big battery or (more likely) we are going to need to be smart about how long we leave our sensors powered to detect occupancy! Finally, I helped work on the design presentation that we will be giving at the beginning of next week.
I am a bit behind from where I’d like to be in that ideally all parts on the hardware BOM would have been ordered by the end of the week, and I’m still waiting on approval from a couple people before I go ahead and place the order. But once that comes through, placing the order shouldn’t take much effort, so I’m not worried about this being a long-term setback.
Next week, I plan to finalize a battery to purchase and place an order for the rest of the hardware. While I wait for parts to arrive, I will work on writing up the design review report and incorporating any feedback that we get from the presentation. Finally, I will help finish up the rest of our design proposal slides, and am looking forward to seeing the presentations of other groups!