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Juan Mejia’s Status Report for 2/11/23

For today’s progress report there was mostly planning and learning done this week. Since one of our biggest obstacles in designing our board is creating the PCB, we have a to learn how to use Eagle/AutoDesk. Me and Mukundh are in charge of designing the PCB so we both have to be able to make proper decisions when using the required software. My main goal after Wednesday’s presentation was finding and watching tutorials online, some of which I will link in this post. The goal for the next status report is to have a primitive PCB design that could serve the purpose of our project. I would say that on my end, I am a bit behind schedule. In order to get back on schedule, I plan on getting as much hands on experience I can this week with the Eagle at the computers in ANSYS. I am also beginning to research how I am going to design the engraving on chess pieces so that they can distinguishable.

Some Examples of the Youtube videos that I watched:

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Mukundh Balajee’s Status Report for 2/3/23

The majority of this week was involved in presentations and finalizing our abstract and project proposal. I was able to make progress on delegating work, and I have started work on learning Eagle to better understand the process for PCB fabrication, as it is a new area for all of us. I was able to follow some online tutorials, and gain a basic understanding on what PCB Fabrication is and how it is done. I plan to use the virtual andrew machines to access eagle and get started on working on the PCB fabrication for our board. 

 

Currently, we are just on track with our schedule, however, I would like to move a little ahead of schedule to give us more time for testing and integration. I plan to do this by completing the PCB Fabrication this upcoming week, and getting started, and hopefully completing the 3D printing of our custom board. 

 

By next week, we hope to have a basic board printed out, the PCB order sent out, and start working on our website to connect to platforms like lichess.org. To help us stay ahead of schedule, I plan to work on the website with Edison, while Juan Mejia works on the integration of the board with the arduino and converting the analog signals into digital signals, before transmitting it to the Raspberry Pi.