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?
The most significant risk that could jeopardize the success of the project is the wired connection between the RPi Pico UART (RX and TX) and GND wires to the Pogo pins. A problem that we are facing right now is that steady and sturdy connection that will allow the RPi Picos on each block to communicate with the RPi 5 via the multiplexer that indexes each grid position. Right now we are doing thorough testing on the soldered connections and we’ll also make sure that no picos were damaged from desolder the old male header pins that we had when we were replacing it with the longer female header pins. The contingency plan is to verify all of our hardware as of right now and if that still doesn’t work we will move to directly soldering the wires to the picos instead of having them connected via header pins.
On the website end, we set up the Docker container that would ideally allow for the website to run on the RPi without too much set up. The only risk for that the Docker container potentially does not work and the mitigation for that is just to install all the dependencies locally on the RPi 5. Currently we have the local installed dependencies and a working web app running on the RPi 5.
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? Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.
There were no changes made to the existing design of the system. There isn’t a change to the updated schedule even though we are slightly behind but we are catching up over this weekend and on Monday as well to help stay on track.
This is also the place to put some photos of your progress or to brag about a component you got working
