What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).
This week I prepared wires to solder onto the buttons and soldered the remaining power adaptors onto the remaining battery holders. I also helped test each of the pogo pins after soldering to make sure they had solid connections (doing a simple power test using a power source and a DMM to measure voltage). Additionally, I helped to build the circuitry for the grid and organize the connections from the RPi to the rest of the components.
I also helped Wen Hui in integrating the embedded controller with the web app, and was able to get uploading words to the blocks and button submission (link) for both rows to work, all through the web app.
After trying multiple methods to try and fix the SocketIO issue between the web app backend and frontend, I still was not able to resolve the issue. However, I came up with a new contingency plan or solution wherein I just make a button on the frontend appear after the post request to the backend returns successfully, so the user can manually transition to the gameplay page. This works because the problem right now is that the backend function returns successfully, so we are ready to start the new game, but the frontend never receives the socket signals that make it transition to the next screen, so the user is stuck on the loading screen unless they know the url of the next page and manually go there themselves. By adding a button, the user can start gameplay manually when the set stage is successfully completed.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
My progress is a bit behind where I’d like to be due to the bug I was unable to fix. However, now that I have a new workaround idea that should be fairly straightforward to implement, I should be able to get back on track with integration testing and web app quality testing on the RPi.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Next week, I hope to implement my new workaround for the web app SocketIO bug that I was unable to solve. I also plan to continue integration testing to make sure that the hardware can reliably work with the web app. Additionally, I want to add some instrumentation to the code so that we can see how much time each stage is taking, and assess whether we are meeting our design and user requirements.
