This week was pretty busy for all of us and we had design presentations during class, so our Gantt chart schedule was relatively light. On Sunday I spent a lot of time finishing up our design presentation slides and speaker notes with Yasser and Sirisha. I submitted an order request for an accelerometer, which should arrive next week to begin testing on. The last part that I am in charge of ordering is the Wifi card for the Jetson, but I want to have a conversation with a TA that has more experience with using Jetsons before I select a card and submit the order form. I also met with Sirisha outside of class to create a more final design for the web app and which technologies we wanted to use. We decided that we wanted to use React for the frontend, Firebase for login capabilities, and that we want to send data from the Jetson to our cloud data storage (on an AWS S3 bucket) at routine intervals every few minutes. We also decided that we wanted to include a log page in the UI design that would record the time that each notification to the user took place and the reason for that notification (inattention or drowsiness and a more specific description).
I misread the schedule last week (mixed up start of week vs end of week dates) on our Gantt chart and thought that we were behind schedule in my last status report. The tasks that I thought needed to be completed by the end of this week are actually scheduled to be completed by the end of next week. I am on track according to our actual schedule that we confirmed as a group.
The deliverables I listed in my status report for last week (since I misread our schedule) are the deliverables that I hope to complete by the end of next week. After talking with a TA about the Wifi card, I will submit an order form by the end of next week. With the initial logistics and page designs for the web app all set, Sirisha and I are ready to set up the initial structure of the web app together next week. We will also divide up which pages each of us will work on and I will start implementing the basic format of my assigned pages. Next week I am scheduled to conduct initial testing on the individual hardware components. I want to test out playing sounds from code on the Jetson to the external speaker that we ordered. Additionally, I want to measure the power consumption of the Jetson while running basic code (likely just the code sending audio data to the speaker) to see how feasible it will be for us to fully power the whole device with the 12V power outlet in a car. I will also work with Yasser and Sirisha to apply the feedback from our design presentation to write our design report.