What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?
After some tweaking with the 3D printer settings, I’m able to reduce the size from 3x to 2x the American braille standard, leading to significant miniaturization. I also designed and 3D printed a scalable base, which is used to hold a single braille cell and its corresponding two sliders now, but can linearly expand to hold more in the future.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
The progress is on schedule in terms of building a robust slider actuator. The progress is behind schedule in terms of building out a fully specced product. Importantly, because the actuator fabrication process is so intricate, we should communicate internally about reasonably scaling down the project.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
I will work with Samay to integrate his motor into my based braille cell. Right now the slider can be moved by hand, but next week to need to fully automate this process, and conduct testing on slider’s move speed, location detection, etc.