A major part of our project is the Raspberry Pi since it will serve as our mode of communication between the FPGAs, the webapp and the cryptocurrency blockchain networks. Seeing as how it is such an integral part of our design, we wanted to spend extra time and pay closer attention to the specifications before locking in our decision. However, this poses a sticky situation where the Raspberry Pi we want is not readily available in the 18500 inventory as the FPGAs were and the Raspberry Pi is also out of stock online. We are in the process of looking into other Raspberry Pis in the meanwhile.
We haven’t made any changes to the requirements of the system. The specifications may have to change depending on the Raspberry Pi that we can get ahold of. We have successfully allocated at least 5 FPGAs and will look to scale up in the further weeks.
We pushed back completion of the communication modules because we misjudged the total amount of time it would take, especially because we had to deconstruct our tasks into tasks that took less than a week. The schedule also changed because we were unable to acquire a Raspberry Pi to perform testing on. This is a central component of the system and will take longer than we initially estimated. Further progress on these tasks is now estimated to be made on February 18.
Working components on web app:
