This week I finalized our (prototyping) component selection, I ordered an IMU and a microcontroller. I did some work to make sure these would be compatible, and that initial prototyping would be viable with these components. I ordered dev boards for easy set up and prototyping ease and I made sure that we could also get just the bare components as well. It was a bit of work to narrow my list of components down to options that had both dev boards and bare components available. I looked for parts with significant quantities available on digikey to ensure that once we had the prototype working, we could order a bare component of the same device. Although the dev boards may be too large and heavy to fit some of our weight and size constraints we set for our final product, they will allow us to set up prototyping and data collection quickly which is the most important thing for us in our stage of the project right now. I have begun doing CAD for 3d printing a test rig that will attach the two boards to the tennis racket for initial data flow and testing
Our progress is still on schedule; I submitted in the order to pay for two day shipping for the parts I ordered so that we would get them in time to use them over the weekend but unfortunately I was not notified to pick them up yet which is unfortunate. This has slowed our expected progress a bit but it is okay, we are not behind our planned schedule.
If the parts aren’t available for pickup on monday we may have to think of other ideas to simulate our data flow to keep progress moving. This coming week I hope to have a physical prototype to test our data flow and data collection process.
