The majority of the time this past week was spent on the design report and additional research as we determined certain changes needed to be made since we refined some aspects of the project. For the design report, I worked on the abstract, the design trade studies, parts of the system implementation, test, verification, and validation, project management, and related work, in addition to assisting my teammates with their sections as needed and reviewing and revising the entire report at the end. Throughout working on the design report, we all needed to conduct some more research in order to be thorough with our descriptions. I also needed to review all of the work we had done up until this report to make sure everyone was on the same page about what we decided for our project and any changes that were made. While working on the design report, we also started to individually test some of our hardware components to make sure they all work, but we are still waiting on some components to be delivered since some changes with our software algorithm decisions necessitated a change in the hardware we needed. I also continued working on the website and implementing our UI designs from last week.
According to the Gantt chart, I was supposed to have finished any work with the device schematics and part selection, component testing, refining the design documentation, and setting up the initial webapp structure. The work with testing components needs to be pushed because we had to change some of the hardware we needed to order. Also, because of how much time the design report was taking up last week, not as much time was allocated to continuing the initial webapp structure. These can be alleviated by next week because we have a lighter week according to the Gantt chart.
By next week, I aim to finish the initial webapp setup and assist the others in their work so we can start integration.