This week we spent a lot of time figuring out the details on our design implementation. The biggest discussion of the week was figuring out how we want to connect our ring and pendant and send signals between the two. We initially had come up with communicating between the ring and pendant using bluetooth, but we set up a meeting with Professor Bain on Thursday to figure out alternative options such as an implementation involving RFID. Our discussion was very helpful and he provided insight on how to implement passive/non-passive RFID communication between our ring and our pendant. We’ve since decided to move forward with that approach.
Based on our previous Gantt chart we are a little behind, but we have since updated our chart to account for more realistic time allocated to research and coming up with a well thought out design plan, as well as figure out what components we need to order in order to ensure a smoother process later on.
This week I was able to set up and get starting on creating a companion app. I spent time familiarizing myself with Flutter dealing with setup/build issues and was able to create a Home Page for the application. I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted to due to heavy workload and athletics this week; however, I hope to add more details to the homepage and create navigation to other pages for our different application tasks like trigger settings and contact preferences. I have attached a picture of the home page below:
