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 risks that currently exist are making design decisions which would lead to more costly or difficult integration later on down the line. In order to mitigate this risk, we plan on buying duplicates of sensors, as well as purchasing backup plan sensors in advance in order to prevent any delay between switching to a secondary plan if it needs to occur. We also plan on meeting with our TA and advisor in order to discuss our design choices and understand the risks and challenges associated with our current design. This will allow us to make any necessary pivot we need before beginning to create the project.
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 were made to the existing system so far, we have not yet solidified our design plan and thus any changes being made now are just us working our way towards a viable MVP. We have better solidified which sensors we will be using — Kaitlyn found the sensors for the chair, while Lilly researched gyroscopes for the neckband — and Cora completed research on which permissions will be necessary for our design to work on the Google Chrome extension platform.
Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.
No schedule changes have occurred, we plan on creating the BOM and ordering parts this Monday, so we can begin to create and test our MVP as soon as possible. While the parts come in, we will work on setting up the RasPi and coding it in order so it can host a local server. We will then ensure we can connect to this server from an external network.