This week I was primarily focused on the Interim Demo. I made a slide deck for the demo and worked on polishing the appearance of our current setup to make sure things go smoothly for the demo. I’ve started planning the player 2 interface that will communicate with the raspberry pi to reflect the moves made on FlexyBoard. I am a bit behind compared to the original schedule we wrote in our design report, but I am on track for the updated schedule we included as part of our interim demo. I am still on schedule for the final deadline. In the next week I hope to make significant progress on the player 2 interface. My goal is for the computer interface to be fully functional with checkers.
For the player 2 interface I will verify that a remote player can correctly view the board state, input moves, and receive updates from the physical board, while measuring move-entry accuracy and ensuring both boards remain fully synchronized over multiple turns. Since the player 2 interface is on my computer, I do not feel the need to do any repetition tests and I plan to primarily verify its functionality by making sure it is 100% accurate during regular game play based on the inputs it receives from the raspberry pi. Currently, I am testing jumping over pieces in checkers using a mock rpi interface using a python tool.