This week, I prepared for and presented the Project Proposal on Wednesday. Additionally, I worked with Italia to spec out some of the hardware, choosing which components are the best fit for our application, while taking into consideration cost, size, power consumption, and performance. Below is a screenshot of the bill of materials we are beginning to compile.
According to our Gantt chart, we are slightly ahead of schedule because none of our tasks start until next week. Therefore any work listed on the Gantt chart this week is considered ahead of schedule, for now. However, to make sure I stay on schedule, I need to be focused on Monday to finish specing parts and then move on to researching and prototyping firmware.
Deliverables due by the end of next week are deciding on all main components, as well as having the bulk of the research on which embedded software platform to use.