The major risk that we are facing right now is concerning quickly finalizing our design. Over the week, we hashed out exact details about what our product will look like including specific parts we are interested in ordering. This is a small risk because we are close to finalizing our design and intermediate prototypes. The risk will continue to be managed as we enter design week and 100% finalize design ideas and part ordering. There are minimal contingency plans as the plan is just to finalize our design.
Instead of having the data processing unit be in a separate unit, we have decided to run our processing algorithms on a PC. The rationale behind this change is that having our device work in a self-contained manner (i.e. without the user needing to carry around their computer) is not a top priority of ours—our main goal is to show proof of concept of the gloves working.
We also made some soft deadlines that we want to finalize by next week for the prototypes we have planned. Each prototype should be standalone and work, and each one builds on the last. Below are the details of each rapid prototype as well as when we anticipate finishing them.
- RP 1 due March 20:
- Phase1:
- Create one glove, sensor detection is reliable, IMU data is gathered
- Wired connection to laptop, data send directly to laptop where we can monitor sensor data
- No speaker, no bluetooth
- Phase 2:
- Test Bluetooth capabilities and add battery, and create a glove that can transmit data through bluetooth
- Maintain same performance as phase 1 glove if possible
- Phase 3:
- Train the ML model and finish the product
- Add speaker and haptic feedback
- Phase1:
- RP 2 due April 3:
- Phase 1a:
- Duplicate glove into second glove
- Figure out how to send both gloves information to laptop via bluetooth
- Phase 1b:
- Make PCB only if we are somewhat ahead of schedule
- Phase 2:
- More gathering of data and training
- Phase 1a:
- RP 3 due April 14:
- Phase 1a:
- Expand vocabulary
- Phase 1b:
- Experiment with making this a distributed system using some form of communication protocol (need to iron this out)
- Phase 1a: