What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
Wi-Fi was previously our greatest unknown. None of us had ever programmed a microcontroller with Wi-Fi capabilities and we didn’t really understand what the ESP’s Wi-Fi capabilities were. We now proved that the Wi-Fi capabilities are adequate for our needs and won’t be a risk factor going forward. The greatest remaining risk now is the JPEG runtime. All of the JPEG code that was written so far runs on a laptop and not a microcontroller. Even though the runtime on the laptop is an order of magnitude faster than the needed 100ms run time, even accounting for all the setup code, it still doesn’t give us concrete data on if the ESP can run JPEG at the speed we need. Michael is currently working on making the final changes to port the code over so the actuality of this risk will be soon known
Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements,block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
No changes
Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred
No changes
This is also the place to put some photos of your progress or to brag about a component you got working.
I’m super excited to have gotten some baseline work running on the FPGA for running the JPEG decoder. By next week I should be able to display an uncompressed frame on the monitor!