This week I assembled our PCB and worked on our final presentation while recording demo videos to show the class. I’ve attached a pic of our assembled PCB below. We did run into some issues with the battery the way it needed to be plugged in but we were able to manually fix our battery connection with some header pins. We also ended up connecting our battery adapter and extra powerjack to an extra PCB we had so we can use that as a seperate charging circuit so it didn’t power our PCB while simultaneously charging. Right now we are running into some issues with our voltage regulators as our VIN is not being regulated to 5V like it should be so I need to test if the regulator works or not with some of the extra parts we have. As I’ve designed , implemented and debugged our project, tools that were necessary were definitely an understanding of the data sheets, and a lot of experimentation with libraries for the companion app. I had to get good at understanding other code from libraries I was using in order to apply functions for my own purposes. Next week I hope to debug this voltage regulation issue.
