Personal Accomplishments
For this status report period, I spent the majority of the time testing and debugging the code for the lighting engine classes that I had already written. The week was also cut short by spring break, so I was not able to make that much additional progress. In terms of the testing, I was able to test the Par light functions given that the Gigbar 2 has not arrived yet. I was able to test the fade function, the strobe function, the blackout function, and the color hold function. These all had small bugs in the testing interface and software which needed to be ironed out in order to get the desired functionality. Now it should be able to mimic those changes for the other light types (derby, strobe, and laser) once the Gigbar arrives.
On Track?
Yes, we were scheduled to have spring break off so we did not do anything and are still on track for the majority of my work. I think within the week I should be able to have the majority of the lighting engine working, and have a working audio track for testing of the signal processing portion of the project.
Goals for Next Week
For next week I will be focusing heavily on getting the rest of the light interface setup and tested. Hopefully, all of the subsystems can have a prototype done for the end of the week and we can begin our iterations and integration. Specifically for me, I need to finish the expressive lighting engine execution queue, and have basic lighting logic functionality that can be updated later in a modular way. That way we can create a basic MVP to start integrating with other subsystems.