Author: tachuff

Personal Accomplishments this Week

Along with David, I was out of town for this week so thew work that I as well a the team got done was mostly related to the design review slides. I worked alongside the team to finish the slides, working on the diagrams and slides related to hardware. Other than that I did some further parts research on the parts that we ordered that we can begin work as soon as we can with the components.

On Schedule?

I am personally on schedule for what we wanted to accomplish this week and will be ready to begin the parts testing that we are planning on doing next week.

Next Week Deliverables

When we are doing testing next week with the RPI and LEDS, I want to keep running notes and documentation so that we have all of the information that we need so we can look back at how things performed and don’t need to do any redundant testing later.

This week consisted mostly of work with the rest of the team relating to the proposal presentation as well as the parts list so we could begin ordering parts that we needed as soon as possible.  For the parts list, I worked alongside DJ and David to select light sources and receivers. I also did research to find an appropriate microphone for us to use initially and in our final product. I settled on initially using a small I2S MEMS breakout board we can get from Adafruit that seems to be a good base for initial testing. We also found a similar form factor bone conduction microphone that could serve our purposes but does not come with nearly as much documentation or additional components as the breakout board does. Initially, the Adafruit breakout board should serve well and then we could transition to the bone conduction solution if we are confident on other aspects of the project. Since I am more focused on the hardware for this project, I am not able to make as much tangible progress on the project until parts arrive, but I have been doing research and thinking about how we want to integrate all of the parts of the project. As of now, I am also acting support for other parts of the project such as the design review slides and documentation.

Our progress is on schedule, but I am hopeful that the parts that we need to get started come in soon so that I can start with testing and assembly of circuitry. Since we were proactive with part selection and ordering, this should not be a problem.

Next week I will primarily be focused on helping the rest of the team with the design review slides and report. For deliverables, I want to develop a testing plan and framework so that we can hit the ground running once our parts arrive.