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, we as a team finalized the Design Review slideshow for the presentation. We also got together to finalize our Bill Of Materials and send out our requests. This week, I also worked on verifying some of the circuit schematics that I came up with by looking online for similar projects or projects with the same components. It was important that I try to ensure there are no obvious mistakes in what I did since most components were too expensive to order backups. I also looked into writing and coming up with code for the motor control part of the system for the Raspberry Pi. I read up on how to use the GPIO pins in the Raspberry Pi since I’m not that familiar with it.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
I think my progress is a little ahead of schedule since I had planned out the speaker connections and proximity sensor connections the week before, so I was more focused on trying to rethink and improve my schematic ideas.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
For this coming week, we hope to complete our design report. Also, I would like to help out Ashira with the manufacturing/laser cutting aspect of the structure. For my own personal tasks, I’d like to have more complete code for the motor control.