This week I soldered the lightweight board we’re using for the final demo, then adjusted it after there were some errors. I recorded 33 trials for all 36 characters (1188 trials total) to add data to the ML model, contributing my part to the goal of 100 trials/character. I also wrote part of the final presentation slides and did the design work + copy-writing to communicate my progress since design review.
Weekly extra questions: 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?
A lot of my work this semester involved selecting hardware components to meet the design requirements, then learning how to use previously unfamiliar components. I gained a lot of experience reading and understanding datasheets. I worked a bit with Kat on the Pico integration, so I used online tutorials to brush up on I2C protocols and to understand the ML model Kat and Nia were implementing. One learning strategy I realized I needed to use more was repeatedly reading the datasheets, since the way some of the information was presented was unfamiliar to me and I didn’t always understand it the first time around.