This week, I gave the project proposal talk on Wednesday. I helped my teammates finalize a list of materials that we would need to purchase for this project, and additionally helped figure out which exact items we would need and where we could purchase them from. I looked into a paper to help figure out how to get energy harvesting working, and was able to figure out a better plan of action in terms of materials to buy and sources to look into.
My progress is slightly behind schedule; I didn’t realize that I wasn’t going to be able to order parts on Friday, and we were hoping to put in an order for the sheet metal and piezo elements, at least, by the end of this week. However, we should be able to get that done this week, and shipping should take a short enough amount of time that it should not be a huge detriment.
In the next week, I intend to help Gary with getting the minimal firmware done for the project. Depending on shipping time for our parts, I will also start to work with figuring out how to mount the piezo tiles on the metal band, and the metal band on the wristwatch strap.