This week, I was able to prepare and present our proposal for the professor, TA, and classmates. Although the presentation went smoothly, our group received feedback on the challenges facing our project that we did not fully discuss about. So I would like to say we are a little behind on schedule…already.
What I was supposed to do this week was finalize research on what hardware we will be using and start to place in orders for the pool table, sticks, balls, as well as arduinos and sensors. I looked into this earlier in the week, but due to our discussion with the professor after presentations on Wednesday, our group realized we need to discuss more about the project before diving into ordering components and such. Therefore, most of my work later in the week was purely brainstorming the challenges of our refereeing system and how it can be defined even better from the proposal. Our group is meeting tomorrow to refine our idea before meeting with our professor next week.
To get back on track in our schedule, we plan to somewhat wrap up defining the core of our idea next week and get the orders in asap. Additionally, the deliverables we hope to have by next week is a refined project idea along with the challenges, as well as a list of materials and equipments to order.