Ria’s Status Report for 4/27/2024

This week I worked on the physical design and enclosure for our PCB and general glove design. This involved 3D printing a case which took a bit of trial and error to get just right. Based on our use case requirements, we were aiming for something that would be just a bit larger than the PCB, allow the battery to be secure, make it easy to plug things in and out of the PCB, and something that looks decent. In the first design that I printed, it was a box that looked quite bulky. I made some tweaks and printed a much nicer version with a case that says “EchoSign” as well as mounting holes and a slight curve to fit the hand a bit better. This made our design look much more sleek. We also fried one of our boards so I had to resolder headers onto another board we had and I ordered some spare parts leading up to the demo.