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 focused on researching the necessary components for our project, ensuring compatibility and reviewing documentation. A significant portion of my time was dedicated to refining our use-case requirements based on the feedback we received. This included tailoring the application to meet the updated requirements and establishing an initial quantitative baseline for our design specifications through research.
Additionally, I worked on finalizing the bill of materials by organizing components by supplier to optimize our budget. I also contributed to developing a more detailed block diagram of our project, ensuring better clarity in our system architecture.
On the technical side, I made progress with the GUI implementation using PyQt, setting up a virtual environment and GitHub repository. I was able to learn how to create widgets for the welcome and main screens, though they still require further refinement. Lastly, I submitted an inventory request and pickup for the Raspberry Pi to ensure we have the necessary hardware.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be
taken to catch up to the project schedule?
Due to adjustments in our project timeline, Week 6 was moved up to Week 5, which limited my ability to fully focus on my originally planned tasks from the Gantt chart. However, I was still able to start experimenting with window creation in PyQt and make initial progress on the GUI.
Since we began next week’s tasks early, I will focus on this week’s originally planned tasks next week to ensure I stay on track with our project schedule.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
By next week, I aim to have a fully functional welcome screen and main screen setup in PyQt, with smoother navigation between them. I also plan to refine the GUI layout and begin integrating some input functionalities simulations as we have yet to get the touchscreen.