Report
I spent a good chunk of my time this week (the vast majority of Sunday, ~8hr) working on the final presentation, and then since my slot ended up being on Wednesday, I spent a few more hours on Tuesday night reviewing the work and polishing my spoken words (though the slides of course had already been submitted). Then yesterday and today sunk a significant amount of time into writing the poster, and assembling a list of unit and integration tests for the team status report. Writing words takes so much time.
I soldered together the power lines and re-did the I2C one more time after I realized that the iron I was using last time wasn’t just oxidized, it was corroded and actually damaged, so it wasn’t transferring heat well. It went much smoother, and now the I2C connection isn’t intermittent at all.
The frame finished printing pretty late tonight, since unfortunately the first time I printed it I didn’t give the front piece enough support so it collapsed partway through, and then I got caught up in another class’s work so it took awhile to get it restarted.
It looks like there’s just one hole that didn’t cut clear enough for the machine screws to go through on the first shot, but it’s clear enough that I should be able to force it in/cut away the material with minimal effort. I had to put a lot of support under the two upper battery prongs (not very visible from the photo’s angle), so I’ll have to come back with someone else tomorrow and cut it away with the Dremel (don’t use power tools alone, etc.). I’m not going to install or epoxy anything together until that’s done so it’s not more difficult or more dangerous than it needs to be, so now I go to sleep.
Progress Schedule
There’s not really any schedule anymore, these last two weeks were deliberately left open for “crunch crunch crunch get anything left to be done done now” and that is. Just what’s happening.
Next Week’s Deliverables
Poster, video, demo, paper. In that order.