This week, I did some preliminary work on the user tag device. I ordered a battery pack to power the Raspberry Pi. I unboxed and set up the Raspberry Pi, installing the OS and setting up its networking features. Furthermore, I started working on the interfacing of the Raspberry Pi with the accelerometer module. The accelerometer module came with through-holes rather than pins, so I had to solder header pins onto it that can connect with the GPIO. I am currently still working on getting it to be readable from Python scripts on the Raspberry Pi so that we can get rotation from it to estimate which way the user is facing.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html
https://makersportal.com/blog/2019/11/11/raspberry-pi-python-accelerometer-gyroscope-magnetometer
I am currently still on track with my current progress, as this week was dedicated to setting up the hardware for the tag device, which is slowly coming together.
In the coming week, I plan on finishing the tag device hardware-wise. That is, I want the RPi, battery, case, accelerometer, and DWM module all put together and talking to each other as well as the phone. This way, all that will be left is for each of us to write the software that goes on each of those parts (with me being in charge of the RPi, Weelie the DWM, and Jeff the phone).