Accomplishment: This week I presented for the team’s design presentation, so I spent the first half of the week practicing the presentation. On Tuesday, I met with the visual impairment advisory board at the LAMP, where I introduced our project idea and received feedback and suggestions for our implementation, and gauged interest for user testing later in the semester. We got feedback on incorporating some additional objects to identify in our ML model, and we will stay in contact with LAMP to set up user testing later in the project timeline. I briefly looked into the circuits necessary for voltage conversion for our PCB, but unfortunately got sick after the design presentation and wasn’t able to complete the PCB design this week.
Progress: Since I wasn’t able to complete the PCB design this week, I am behind schedule on getting the PCB ordered. I still plan on finishing the design before spring break, so that the order can be placed and will arrive after break.
Projected Deliverables: This week I will catch up with the PCB design and place orders for our remaining hardware components. I plan to order the PCB from a site with a turnaround time of ~1-2 weeks, so that I can still assemble and test the PCB as soon as possible after spring break.