Author: Charles Li

Weekly Progress

This week I focused most of my efforts on helping Jens to prepare for the presentation as he was less well-versed in the analog side of the project. I also put forth a lot of time in starting our report. This week has been spent mostly on overhead for our project to make sure that our design is in a good place before we get to spring break so that we have working ideas after spring break.

Scheduling

In terms of scheduling, I have fallen a little bit behind schedule, but I feel confident that I should catch back up due to a lot of slack built into my schedule, as well as some progress that has already been made on other parts that I have been assigned. This occurred due to planning and the connectedness of my parts that allowed me to make some progress in other areas unexpectedly.

Weekly Progress

This week I stalled out a little bit. I made a slight miscalculation in my transfer functions for my filters, which led to a lot of going backwards and recreating some of the values that I had originally. I did manage to toss together several components to start preparing for purchasing so that I can start building and testing the DAC as well as the filters that I have designed. I hope to continue to document clearly my thought processes for these designs to ensure that if I encounter any bugs in the future, I can understand why I made my errors to begin with, as that has helped me already in debugging some of my circuitry.

Additionally, I spent several hours preparing our presentation as well as the website so that they would look presentable. This includes formatting the website as well as clearly drawing out my designs in software rather than on a sheet of paper.

Scheduling

I was scheduled to start implementing some of the analog filter and DAC design this week, but I should be beginning to do this next week and I have an extra week of slack to make up for the lost week I have due to presentation overhead as well as errors that I have made.

Deliverables

By the end of this week, I hope to have my materials ordered and hopefully in, so that I can begin to build my filters and test them for accuracy.