Posted late because the Slack announcement said “April 10th,” apologies!
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).
I mostly finished up the comms pipeline between the Arduino and Python scripts, which means that now we can fully work on assembling the system and writing more complex music generation code. Some issues have arisen, such as certain pins being activated when they shouldn’t be. As far as I can tell, it just shouldn’t be happening, but it is. I’ll need to look a little deeper into the code to figure out what the issue is. However, I don’t think that fixing the issue will take more than a few hours. I also had to fix some minor timing bugs regarding establishing the serial connection, but things are going well.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be
taken to catch up to the project schedule?
I’m on track.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
I’m going to completely finish the comms pipeline and then put my all into making the music generation code the best it can be.
Now that you are entering into the verification and validation phase of your project, provide a comprehensive update on what tests you have you run or are planning to run. In particular, how will you analyze the anticipated measured results to verify your contribution to the project meets the engineering design requirements or the use case requirements?
I’ve been doing unit testing on my comms code without any circuits involved, just back and forth communication between the two devices. This involves sending values from a Python script to the Arduino, and then having it send verification codes, received data, etc. For music generation, I can just print a list of notes and then play them on my own keyboard to see if the melodies sound passable (or at least not terrible).