WORK ACCOMPLISHED:
This week I made final decisions for the parts needed for the GPS tracking for the our Rid3 device. I had to find a way to connect the Blues tracking device to the raspberry pi which was something we hadn’t considered before because we assumed they would be compatible. But I found a PI hat available that would allow the two to be used together for our programming.
A good portion of my time was also spent looking into alternatives for our design. I spoke with 3 potential users about how they felt about the design, and took their feedback back to my team to decide on potential designs we could pivot to. I brought up the option of potentially having the GPS information come directly from a phone device and having our application work on a web app. This would leave most of our focus on the haptic feedback wristband. We ended up sticking with our idea, but it helped in generating potential avenues we considered and further added to why we decided on our design choices. I also mapped out pinout connections with the raspberry pi as the central focus, and remodeled some of the pin out choices for our wristband as well ( see below ).
PROGRESS:
I’m currently on schedule with my tasks, this week was primarily research and finalizing design plans + making orders.
NEXT WEEK’S DELIVERABLES:
For next week, the goal is to begin hardware implementation. We currently don’t have the hardware which is my primary focus, so as things start coming in, I’m confirming their specs and see how they work. Also measuring out the power consumption needed by each of the individual parts.
