Currently, the main risks are still integration and timing, especially making sure the LEDs, motors, and controller all work together without unexpected issues. Debugging delays or needing extra components last minute could impact our timeline. To manage this, the team is continuing to integrate and test each subsystem incrementally before combining everything. A key change this week was fully switching to current drivers for the LEDs now that they arrived, which allowed us to finalize the LED setup and made color control more reliable and easier to integrate with the Arduino. No schedule changes have occurred since last week.
Our planned tests are focused on validating full system performance once integration is complete. We have made strong progress assembling the motor systems, so we are close to beginning testing. We plan to verify pan and tilt by recording motion to check rotation angles, test focus by adjusting the lens over distance, and confirm RGB and brightness control through the controller. We will also measure motor noise using a phone decibel meter and check latency by comparing controller input to system response. While full testing hasn’t been completed yet, we are much closer now that the main subsystems are coming together.