This week, I assembled the car chassis and researched how to interface it with both the Raspberry Pi and STM32 board. I also set up the development environment and wrote some preliminary motor control code to test basic functionality. In addition, our team attended an ethics lecture, which prompted us to think more carefully about potential issues such as user safety, privacy, and reliability. For example, since our system involves autonomous movement and sensing, we need to ensure it avoids collisions reliably and does not unintentionally collect sensitive data from users or their surroundings.
Overall, there are no major blockers at the moment, but we are slightly tight on time with the interim demo approaching. The car chassis arrived later than expected, which caused a small delay in hardware testing. To stay on track, we plan to increase our workload next week and focus on accelerating integration and testing progress.