Author: tgildeng

The biggest risk we are facing right now is our parts not arriving on time. We are behind schedule if they do not come this week as our plan was to assemble the glove and begin testing. However, without hardware we are still making progress working on the communication between Raspberry Pi and software as well as working on the user-interface. This week we will finish the Design document and assemble the glove if our parts arrive. We will also continue implementing the software portions that we do not need hardware for.

 

This week we also formalized parts of the design for the design report, like picking which protocols we’ll use for MVP and final. The glove is based on Raspberry Pi and will use C for the controls. The IMU will use I2C to communicate with the Raspberry Pi. The flex resistors will communicate with the Raspberry Pi through its GPIO, possibly with capacitors to filter out noise. For MVP, the glove will communicate with the computer via USB, but we’d like to do wireless communication for final. We’re considering adjusting the weight requirements based on the batteries we’ve been able to find: if we can’t find a light enough battery to make the glove easy to use, we’ll need to switch to powering the glove with a USB cable or similar, but make the cable long so it’s still ergonomic.

Like last week, there are no significant risks at this stage. We’re in the process of ordering parts, trying to balance getting enough parts early while not blowing our budget if the parts aren’t right. However, we have a pretty good idea of which specific parts we need at this point. We need to look into software choices soon, including how to receive data and use it to build the model.

Part A was written by Nia

Our project aims to improve welfare by providing education to all for learning ASL and increasing fluency. We’re taking into account safety by ensuring batteries that won’t overheat during use.

Part B was written by Teadora

The product solution we’re designing meets needs for social factors. ASL (and other sign languages) are a large part of the deaf community, and it’s common for signed languages to be a child’s first language, especially if people in their family are hard of hearing. Learning sign language can also be useful for older adults since hearing loss can occur later in life, especially as a complication of other health concerns. In recent years, it’s become more common to see sign interpreters in everyday events, like concerts, government press briefings, and other events with live speakers. While sign language interpreting is a complicated skill that takes many years to master, learning sign language is an important way to connect with the deaf community and create accessible environments. Our solution will help people learn ASL and facilitate communication between different cultural groups.

https://www.asha.org/siteassets/ais/ais-comorbidities-and-hearing-loss.pdf

https://signhealth.org.uk/resources/learn-about-deafness/deaf-or-deaf/

 

Part C was written by Katherine

The economic factors are important as there are many versions of our product that are similar being built so it is very important we create a cheap and easily accessible one. Our production should be high quality and also cheaper than other products. As for distribution we want it to be easily accessible which we are demonstrating by creating ourselves with parts we order ourselves.