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Team Status Report for 2/7/26

The most significant risk at the moment is trying to find a motion sensor for our pen. We have been searching for vendors online but have been struggling to buy and find the one that we had originally wanted. We are talking to our TA and faculty member to hopefully find trustworthy vendors to search for the needed part. The contingency plans is we have backup sensors that we could try to look for in order to replace the current one if we cannot find it. We will find backup vendors for other sensors just in case.

There have not been any changes to our design of the system since the proposal presentation on Wednesday. Here is our current design we are thinking of implementing:

This week we have spent time searching for all of our components plus vendors to buy those components from and compiled them all into a spreadsheet: Components – Sheet1

We updated our schedule dates a little bit to account for the time it took to design our slides for the proposal presentation and look for parts for the design so we are pushing back the PCB and CAD design by a week. Here is the updated schedule: 18-500 Gantt chart – Gantt Chart

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Tsairus’s Status Report for 2/7/26

This week I managed to come up with a diagram to properly show how all of the components in our product comes together and draw out a visual representation of what I think the pen should look like. I also took the time to take measurements of the components to help figure out the dimensions that the pen should be and looked into the specs of the motion sensor to make sure it could accomplish the tasks we need from it. In addition to this I spent time coming up with technical challenges and some risk mitigation strategies to counteract what we think our technical challenges are.  I think my progress is on schedule since I was able to come up with a reasonable hardware design and pretty much finished looking for the parts we want.

For next week I am hoping to complete the first round of the PCB schematic and layout for the motion sensor so we can send that to the fab and test it soon to make sure there are no errors.