Week 2, 2017

Maurice here,

We’ve got lots of plans for this new semester of work.

Brad and company on the web interface team got a webpage up and almost running and ready for putting lots of great content into it. They plan to have a login page working very soon (in a few days).

Giandre and software team are making lots of plans to fixing some behind the scenes infrastructure to the computer. We’re doing this by squashing any bugs that pop up and creating things such as requirements.txt and config files. Giandre is also planning on implementing audio feedback. Not really any immediate goals for this, code upgrading is kind of a work in progress always.

Brice and the hardware team are working on stuff such as a secondary hat for the Pi, making a new sturdier housing, and collaborating with the software team on getting the cheaper scanner to work (which is a personal project of mine). Getting the cheaper scanner to work is important to me because it will shave off lots of cost for each unit. I can taste the solution to getting it to work, we’re just in the process of getting in touch with HID (the card and scanner manufacturer) with getting everything finalized. Hopefully we’ll have more insight into the solution in the next few days.

That’s all I can really think of for this week,
Go Tigers!

Week 10

Hello!

Week 10 was basically a culmination of many things coming together. We’re finally being able to finalize things for ISAM and even realize our goal. The software team was able to connect to a MySQL server in order to use it for authentication, and the hardware team got our PCB boards printed and delivered. We also finished the poster that we will have on display at ISAM. At this point it’s a process of getting our alpha product put together and ready to display. Goals for this week are finishing plans for ISAM, prettying up our design, and getting our code to run indefinitely, intuitively visually, and ideally bug free. We were able to get our code to run indefinitely and our code hasn’t had any issues thus far, so we’re excited for a successful showing at ISAM!

 

Displaying our ideal housing.
Displaying our ideal housing.
Showing our working program.
The code to our working program.
Brice demos the poster for ISAM.