Week before fall break
All of my time this week was focused on completing the design report. We had meetings on 4 of the days and there was plenty of individual work on top of that.
Fall break
Over fall break, I was extremely occupied with a project and homework for my 18421 class.
Next week
I am waiting on a preliminary order of solenoid circuit components, and as soon as they arrive, I can expect to spend a few hours testing them out with a power supply and oscilloscope. Testing them out physically will prove more fruitful than Cadence simulations, I’ve come to realise- Cadence is too ideal, and it takes time for me to introduce parasitics to make components behave more realistic. It’s simply not a good use of my time when I could be working with the real components, and Joshna and Professor Bain agreed with me on this in our most recent meeting.
This week I will also start writing code for MIDI to firmware conversion using the python MIDO library.
I have indeed fallen slightly behind schedule but I am confident I can get back up to speed this week. Besides, we had allocated about 2 weeks of slack time at the end of the semester in our Gantt chart, some of which will help me right now.