In this week, the hardware design for the SPARK system reached a major milestone. I finalized the schematic and PCB layout using Autodesk Eagle. The hardware design portion of the project is considered complete and ready for fabrication.
For the design report, I mainly contributed in the hardware aspects of design requirements, principles, and design trade sections, testing and validation, bills of materials and budget, and risk mitigation.
The primary focus for the upcoming week is hardware assembly and testing. After the parts arrived, I will assemble the parts onto a breadboard for initial testing of the functions. After the system is validated, I will then solder the parts onto the PCB
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