This week was overall another week of research and preparation before the purchase request form was released on Wednesday. Work on Sunday was focused on finishing the proposal presentation slides, for which I provided rough drafts that were eventually altered by the rest of the team to make them less text heavy. Since the schedule was only finalized on Sunday, it is somewhat early to tell if I am truly ahead or behind on finishing research. By next week, I will hopefully have sufficient notes on integrating BLE (Bluetooth low energy) with desktop/android apps which will serve as the groundworks of our companion app that allows users to upload schedules. Hopefully the team will also decide on a board so I can do additional research into what languages I will be using, as well as downloading necessary tools/libraries so I can write clean code in a manner that will be easy to share with teammates. Overall I feel that we are in a good spot as we can probably finalize board decisions on Monday during lab time, which allows me to research on Tuesday night before reporting on Wednesday in lab before spending the rest of the week sketching designs for app interface.
Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2026: Delaynie McMillan, Italia Grant, Felipe Marples Rodriguez