Team Status Report for 4/6/24 – Team B3: Music Mirror

We borrowed the lights later in the week this week and are still trying to figure them out and will work on the timings this week. We did figure out the keep-alive functionality though. So for the first two our risks are still the same as they were last week: 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.
No changes have been made to the system diagram or the project schedule.