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 mainly focused on manufacturing and assembly of the vending machine enclosure, as well as finishing up the ethics assignment. Because our schedule for manufacturing was pushed back by a week into our initially planned assembly time, we had to redistribute some of our efforts to make sure that both jobs were finished by the end of the week, which we did successfully. With the help of David and Anna, we were able to laser cut all the pieces of the enclosure and assemble almost everything as well (shown below), with the exception of the dispenser springs and front panel, which we’ll install later on, when development for all the peripherals are finished and components can be mounted. I also spent some time helping David with debugging his schematic and code to troubleshoot the motor control. Other than that, I also spent some time this week working on the ethics assignment that was due on Wednesday.
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 was behind coming into the week due to delays in manufacturing, but I was able to catch up and finish almost all the manufacturing an assembly this week.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Since the mechanical end of the project is basically complete, this next week, my main focus will be in helping out with peripheral control, namely, getting the motors to work as needed, as well as bringing up speaker, LED, and sensor functionality. It might also be valuable to make an attempt at integration with the GUI as well, but the priority will mainly be implementing the basic functionality first.