Week of Mar 30 – Apr 6

Administrivia

• Worked to to put together a cohesive product to demo for the mid-point demo on Wednesday.
• Had to remake our schedule for the mid-point demo.
• Worked on the reading assignment dues this Sunday

Project

This week I worked on a few different things to help get the project ready for our midpoint demo in two weeks:

1. Motors: Helped Sourav with the motor drivers by trying to look through his code to get the car to drive straight.
2. Looked into finding a higher performance RFID scanner to fix our issues with the gates.

 

Scheduling

I have caught up on my tasks. before I was behind, but I did a lot more this week so I should be on track now.

New Schedule
Dates	Task
Feb 4 – Feb 6	Come up with a first draft of the bill of materials for three cars
Feb 6 – Feb 8	Started design of RFID and IR circuits
Feb 8 – Feb 15	Started design the physical layout of a car
Feb 15 – Feb 22	Finish first draft of circuit designs
Feb 22 – Feb 25	Design the PCB that goes in the car
Feb 25 – Feb 28	Find appropriate battery and power system parts
Feb 28 – Mar 3	Work on preparing for the design review presentation and report
Mar 3 – Mar 9	Finish first draft of 3D model for the car
Mar 17 – Mar 19	Assemble frame.
Mar 19 – Mar 25	Build IR circuits, get started on RFID and Xbox controller and assemble 2 cars.
Mar 25 – Mar 31	Finish the IR circuits so that they are mountable and work on Xbox controller inputs. Also, prepare for midpoint demo.
Mar 31 – Apr 4	Optimize the RFID scanner, make third car.
Apr 4 – Apr 9	Optimize the RFID scanner, make third car.

Deliverables for Next Week:

1. Next week is build week, so I will not have anything to deliver for capstone.