What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).
During this week, I began working on our design report and continued planning out the structure of our sysem. Since our W series STM32WB55s had not arrived yet, I did some practice with an STM32 board I had access to and set up a few simple peripherals: LEDs, buttons (assuming we will need to incorporate at least one into our earring design. Since the device we are using is from Adafruit, it works with the CircuitPython library and is designed to be easily configurable with Arduino devices and other hobbyist microcontrollers. To connect with the DotStar matrix from an STM32 device, the most efficient way is to image the device with CircuitPython, which I tested with my personal STM32 to start getting a feel for the interface.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
According to the plan set out in our Gantt chart, I am currently on schedule.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Since our parts have begun arriving, I plan to start getting our basic peripherals working with our STM32 and creating a preliminary interface and writing any baseline library functions necessary for communicating with the DotPixel LED matrix
Please list the particular ECE courses (if any) that covered the engineering science and mathematics principles your team used to develop your design? If there are no courses please tells us how you learned those principles over the last week ?
The course that I have found most relevant to the work I did this past week is probably 18349 Embedded Systems and 18240. As I began working through the preliminary setup, I found myself applying my skills from 18349 to properly understand the datasheets independently. Going forward, we will need to design our own PCB, which will also involve skills from 18349.