What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
Our most significant risks now come from debugging bidirectional communication. Our bi directional works well in a normal conversation flow, but if two people talk relatively slowly and overlapping, the system has trouble determining who to transmit and gets stuck. This risk is being managed by coming up with code debugging and testing strategies to try and determine what is specifically happening on the backend. We are also coming up with contingency plans to just hardcode a ‘priority’ that can guarantee only one person is sending/receiving. There are a few other contingency plans we have including using a reserved EOP character to signal a switch in priority. Other than that, our only other main thing left is mounting. We dont foresee this causing many risks however we could just end up with some messy wires. We will try to avoid this but also only have so much time to iterate our mount design.
Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
We have some small changes to our mounting plan. We now have a lens on one eye so that you can focus onto the screen. However, this lens is only on the bottom of the eye-hole so that you can still focus your eye on the background. This change was necessary as if your eyes are only looking through lens for too long then can become strained. There is not too much of a cost associated with this, aside from potential for eye straining which we mitigated by allowing you to focus on and off the lens. As mentioned earlier, no changes yet for bidirectional protocol but we are considering contingency changes.
Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred
There are no changes to our schedule as we are all either on schedule or ahead.
We have some pictures and videos similar to last week but for 2-way communication. We will show them at demo if needed 🙂 (hopefully not )