Team Status Report for 3/30/24 – Team B3: Music Mirror

The most significant risk that could jeopardize this project is still the lighting system. Since our lighting fixture displayed some behavior before starting to fail consistently, we need to test some other configurations, or consider obtaining a second set of lighting fixtures. We plan to mitigate this risk by borrowing equipment from the IDeATe lab: first, we will borrow an ENTTEC DMX to USB converter, which a previous ECE Capstone team (Group D4) told us they used. If this does not work we will borrow their DMX lights as well, to test whether it is an issue with the fixture. Our second concern is managing real-world song timings, as the Spotify Web API does not issue us the capability to wait for a callback when a song finishes playing, although it does return the exact duration time of any track. We intend to mitigate this risk by experimenting with different clocks and internal song tracking. The final potential risk is keeping track of which Users have recently engaged with the app, in order to determine the majority count of active users. We plan to tackle this issue with keep-alive signal communication with our web app clients to check if Users have engaged with our service within the last timeout epoch.
No changes have been made to the system diagram or the project schedule.