- Personal Accomplishments
- Designed data transmission protocol with Anju (see image below)
- Ironed out overall system communication between devices with Anju and KJ (See diagram below)
- Began exploring UART and USB implementation information. I have chosen to implement the program in C/C++ to create a virtual COM port and communicate between FTDI and FPGA through UART
- I worked with Anju and KJ to choose an FTDI chip as software implementation difficulty is impacted by this choice
- We discussed options on how to narrow the green laser beam as KJ demonstrated that the beam width was too large
- We decided to find a laser pointer and separate its lens to attach onto the already acquired laser that matches our specs
- Designed data transmission protocol with Anju (see image below)
- Schedule
- My work is on schedule. While I wasn’t able to write pseudocode as I would have hoped for from last week, the protocol had to be ironed out to consider changes in hardware as well as address speed concerns. Up front, I still have less actionable tasks compared to Anju and KJ who have hardware considerations that need to be ironed out before I can begin formally coding. However, the planning stages are still on track to have code written before break, and I hope to produce pseudocode this week.
- Deliverables for next week
- I hope to produce pseudocode for this week to make up for last week
- I would like to actively test COM port communication between laptops. Even, if the implementation is different between FTDI and my laptop, I don’t have direct experience with this, and would like to understand the implementation better
Anju Ito, Roger Lacson, and KJ Newman