{"id":270,"date":"2024-04-21T03:52:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T03:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/?p=270"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:54:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:54:53","slug":"brookes-status-report-4-20-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/2024\/04\/21\/brookes-status-report-4-20-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke\u2019s Status Report \u2013 4\/20\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plan for this week was to finish finalizing the board and prepare the final project. Although the board doesn&#8217;t have the final polishing layers, testing, and assembly have mostly been completed. In addition to verification of functionality testing, I also had the chance to test out different styles for the pads on the board. I tried various combinations of wood, stainless steel, and polycarbonate and ultimately settled on a layer of wood and a layer of polycarbonate. This added tension and an excellent feel to the board without increasing the thickness too much. I was hoping to get the final board done, but next week, I can dedicate this week to making the board look like a complete product and finishing up any testing and issues I may run into as time passes in the building.<\/p>\n<p>I fell a bit behind overall this week, but that doesn&#8217;t change the timeline, as it can&#8217;t. The due date doesn&#8217;t change, and fortunately, I gave myself a bit of slack this upcoming week in case I ran into some issues like I did this week with assembly, such as the fake acrylic and delayed orders. In the end, this final week is finishing up everything that hasn&#8217;t been done and preparing for the final presentation. It&#8217;s a good bit of work, but I should be ready to finish on time for demo day. Below are some photos of the new parts being assembled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-271\" src=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174514-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174514-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174514-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174514-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174514-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Testing different materials. Unfortunately, the acrylic was fake, so we had to work with polycarbonate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-272\" src=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174446-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174446-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174446-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174446-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>We tried out different wiring configurations. The final design required me to expand the wiring space, as the overlapping wires were difficult to keep from spreading out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-273\" src=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174454-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174454-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174454-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174454-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/271\/2024\/04\/20240420_174454-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Thanks to the wood bending, the inside of the board was glued together with way more clamps than necessary.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan for this week was to finish finalizing the board and prepare the final project. Although the board doesn&#8217;t have the final polishing layers, testing, and assembly have mostly been completed. In addition to verification of functionality testing, I also had the chance to test out different styles for the pads on the board. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/2024\/04\/21\/brookes-status-report-4-20-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brooke\u2019s Status Report \u2013 4\/20\/24&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teama4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}