Todd’s Status Report for 3/7
Personal Accomplishments this Week
Work on the physical project was lighter this week due to class time being taken up by design presentations and ad the design report being due on Friday. For the design report I mainly worked in assisting both David and DJ on ideas and supporting them when they needed information about the intended hardware and such, and I also made a couple of the diagrams sin the report, and citing sources. We were also waiting on our RPi PICO boards to come in so some of my work was also limited in that regard, but we should be in a good place to hit the ground running when we get back.
On Schedule?
We are still on schedule with our updated plan and also personally on schedule with my individual tasks as well. I have also started thinking and researching more on how we are going to integrate all of the parts of our project for the final product, which I will continue to work on next week.
Next Week Deliverables
I am planning on helping DJ get the PICOs up and running and I would like to get some information transmission through IR working. As I mentioned earlier, I also want to get a draft of how we are going to integrate all of the electronics into an ergonomic and usable form factor so that we don’t lose the user experience in the search for functionality.
David’s Status Report for 2/21
What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?
I spent a decent amount of time in the early week with DJ on beginning the software for our project. We setup our RPis, but our V2T onto the Pis and began attempting GPIO modulation code. Unfortunately, the Pi 5 has a much more difficult time with hardware level GPIO than past Pis. As a result, I also spent time reformulating some design to use a pico for led control. This should be a far far easier way to actually get code to modulate the light. Aside from that, I did some work on getting the LCD screen interface coded. I have also spent about 5 hours beginning design report.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
We are still ahead of schedule. Along with DJ we have packet encoding and decoding programs made. With our switch to pico, our scheduling may definitely be shifting a little bit in the next week or 2 depending on how difficult that is to work with.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Next week my main focus is working on pico integration. I (we) would like to get the modularized light working so that we can begin integrating with the V2T and our encoding / decoding software. Based on research this week, we think the pico should be easy to work with for this as it is designed more as a hardware-level microcontroller. Aside from this, I am also working on design report which we will complete by Friday.