Personal Accomplishments this week
For this week, the main thing that was completed was the mounting of one of the devices on the 3D printed glasses and testing that it worked with one of the breadboard setups. This went very smoothly (other than glue issues) so we can move on to mounting the second device to have available to show at teh final presentation. Other than that, I have been preparing of my presentation last week.
On Schedule?
We are still mostly on schedule and plan to finish mounting our device before presentations start. We got over the small hurdle of making sure all of the component s worked off the breadboard so now the rest of mounting and integration should go smoothly.
Deliverables for next Week
The final presentation is the main deliverable for next week, but other than that I want to make sure that our system for mounting the microphone and providing some noise isolation works.
As you’ve designed, implemented and debugged your project, what new tools or new knowledge did you find it necessary to learn to be able to accomplish these tasks? What learning strategies did you use to acquire this new knowledge?
In this project, there are a couple main things that I have learned in order to complete this project. The first thing is the researching oof different components that work well in a distinct system without incorporating them onto my own PCB. This involved making sure that the PICO, Pi5, Mic board, LEDs and Receivers all worked together while having their own PCBs and communication protocols. This involved poring over the data sheets of these products as well as looking at the extensive documentation that exists for things like the Raspberry Pis. The other main tool and knowledge that I learned was 3D CAD design for 3D printing. While I have experience with CAD for PCBs and simple shaped, designing somethin to be 3D printed was not something I have done before. I mainly used tutorials, either on a website or video to do this but it also involved a lot of experimentation and trial and error on the program itself to find the workflow that worked best for me.