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Jamari’s Status Report for 2/7/26

This week I worked to define the use case for our project so we can easily map out our use case requirements. I also contributed to solidifying the technical challenges for the versatile stylus and thinking about what testing methods we can use to ensure our hardware and software are functioning properly. With the next week, I am looking to research and experiment with the canvasing capabilities using JavaScript & HTML, with some rudimentary code to understand how we want to setup our conversion module.

 

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Christian’s Status Report for 2/7/26

This week I helped specify use case requirements for our project to ensure that our MVP is indeed viable, including tallying up the weight, price, and helping estimate the latency requirements to look towards how usable our product will be. In addition to this, I planned out our semester work schedule in the gantt chart, and recently edited it to account for our shifted work schedule.

Within the next week, I hope to have a rough draft of both the physical position to digital position conversion module and the 3D print housing CAD done. As long as I start on these two things this weekend, I should be on schedule.

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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.