This week, we divided up the Design Report into sections amongst the 3 of us. We also made sure that we know and have all the content we need respectively to work on the report. We have been and will continue to work on our sections individually. Our aim is to finish it by Tuesday night. Then, we will combine and format the report on Wednesday in order to submit it before the midnight deadline.
We also are close to keeping up with the schedule, both individually and as a group. While working on the design review presentation, we made some changes to the schedule. While the majority of it still remains the same, we accounted for Spring Break and the tasks we have completed so far. Furthermore, the new Gantt Chart is much more readable and easy to understand. Of course, the tasks delve much deeper in contrast to the few words shown in the Gantt Chart.
Some important changes may come to our system in terms of what and how many FSRs we use. Based on our talk with the professor and TA as well as results reflected in Tushhar’s testing, our initial plan of using 2ft long FSR in a circle or Z-shape may fail. We do have a mitigation strategy for it where we use smaller but more numerous sensors per square. Further details will be discussed and flushed out in the week to come.
We also plan to finish our tentative Bill of Materials by next week, and so we will order parts for the construction of our mat within the next two weeks.