This week I worked on finishing our project proposal slides for our class presentations. Specifically I worked on helping redefine our user and design requirements so that there was a clear distinction from the user and technical perspective. This included refining the metrics we had discussed and creating valid explanations behind each one. For the remainder of this week, I took into account some of the feedback we received from the questioning portion of the proposal presentation and looked into potential ways to address them. This included looking into temperature sensors and seeing how feasible it would be to include that aspect post-MVP. This also included refining our testing plan by thinking about what materials would give us the best results – I found that using varying thicknesses and opacities would allow us to best test our radar detection model. I also did a bit more research on fire search and rescue missions, after receiving feedback to narrow our scope down a bit. The research was mainly to see if we could get our device close enough to a fire, without having it melt or malfunction. From what we had previously researched, it seems as though we can get close enough to the fire to properly run our radar detection, but in edge cases where the obstructions require a smaller radius, our device would not be able to go closer to detect. Lastly, I started planning my own schedule for the next few weeks since the Gantt chart was quite large and I couldn’t break down all of my tasks to the checkpoints I wanted. I did not make a formal Gantt chart but I listed what I want to do/what that would require, and the deadlines I would like to finish those by.
My progress is on schedule. Next week I plan to look into buying a domain and setting up a general web app framework for our project. I also plan to work with my group mates on the design slides.
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