Current status of project: We are describing our final design, spinning out software, and using Designsafe

Work completed in the last week:

Almost done with DesignSafe for mitigating hazards for regular use (1 of 2 tasks) of our device

Finished describing electronic parts, finalizing circuit-board placement for printing

Assigned tasks for mechanical and software finalization

Work planned for next week:

Implement the flow chart in Java, eclipse

Finalize circuit design

Aything needed from client or TA or instructor to continue work:

1.       A meeting with Dr. Anastasio to confirm the final project requirements for our mixed hardware/software design, especially when the software needs input to run! (holdover from last week) I.e. what do we have to have working? We can in theory run the software from a laptop, since none of us own smartphones. However, since we don’t have microphones, can we just use looped pseudo-noise as input?

2.       Question: we are supporting a research project that will have <100 subjects. How should we address “mass-production” costs? 

Current status of project: We are choosing and describing components of our final design

Work completed in the last week:

Electronic components selected, described, and enumerated

Researching parts and material choices for mechanical component

Started on coding

Work planned for next week:

Finish mechanical component selection and description

Work heavily on coding

Anything needed from client or TA or instructor to continue work:

A meeting with Dr. Anastasio to confirm the final project requirements for our mixed hardware/software design, especially when the software needs input to run

Current status of project: We are currently researching specific details of our proposed design

Work completed in the last week:

We finished our progress report

We discussed future directions that we will need to pursue and how to approach them

Work planned for next week:

Continue looking up more detailed design specs: headphone types and materials, equipment attachment, software developement

Aything needed

N/A

Current status of project: We are putting finishing touches on the presentation and progress report

Work completed in the last week:

• We wrote various parts of the paper
• We combined various parts of the paper
• We met with Dr. Anastasio
  

Work planned for next week:
Start working on software
Finish progress report (editing and formatting)

Anything needed from client or TA or instructor to continue work:
Critique on our presentation

Current status of project: We are continuing fleshing out our progress report and working out the algorithm


Work completed in the last week: 

• We met with our TA to discuss our work on the progress report, specifically organization
  
• We fleshed out our main categories of ideas and are in the midst of describing our subcategories of ideas
  
• We looked up manufacturers for some categories
  
• We considered two main algorithms and chose one. We are working on more versions of doing the calculations.
  
• We contacted our the graduate student working on the game software side, so we can properly interface with them.
  

Work planned for next week: 
Complete presentation and report

 Anything needed from client or TA or instructor to continue work:
Meeting with Dr. Anastasio on Tuesday to discuss proper organization of our (many) ideas. 

Current status of project: 
We are organizing and fleshing out topics for our progress report

Work completed in the last week:

• We met with Dr. Anastasio to discuss our project directions.
  
• We met with our TA to discuss our work on the preliminary report.
  
• We completed our classification tree and started exploring some of the ideas from it
  

Work planned for next week:
Create an outline for the progress report and presentation.

Anything needed from client or TA or instructor to continue work:
N/A

Current status of project:
We are working on the information needed for the “Progress” report and presentation.

Work completed in the last week:
We met with our client to discuss our current progress. We are almost finished brainstorming and created a classification tree to organize our ideas. We chose a semi-modular design approach, so there are several options under each category of noise detection, noise reduction, microphone, smartphone interface, and apparatus. We contacted manufacturers from 21 recommended headphones for frequency-dependent noise reduction specifications, but did not receive any replies. We have scheduled a meeting with Dr. Anastasio on Tuesday.

Work planned for next week:
Finalize classification tree. Discuss with Dr. Anastasio the possible directions of our project (hardware vs. software).

Anything needed from client or TA or instructor to continue work:
Meeting with Dr. Anastasio. Disability-friendly language information has not been posted to Telesis. Our initial report and presentation feedback.

Current status of project:
We are currently brainstorming designs for aspects of our portable controlled noise environment. We are also contacting some companies to get detailed specs for noise cancelling headphones.

Work completed in the last week:

• Finished preliminary written report
  
• Published a design website at www.portableat.weebly.com
  
• Came up with some general designs for our device
  

Work planned for next week:

• Get detailed specs for various noise canceling headphones
  
• Generate more design ideas, possibly using a classification tree and combination table
  

Anything needed from mentor/client or TA or instructor to continue work:
n/a

Current status of project:
We are currently preparing for our preliminary presentations.

Work completed in the last week:

•  Individual background research sections
  
• Preliminary presentation slideshow
  
• Individual rough drafts for preliminary written report, and a rough draft for the whole paper
  

Work planned for next week:

• Complete preliminary written report by refining the rough draft
  
• Develop and publish our team website 
  
• Brainstorm project designs
  

Anything needed from mentor/client or TA or instructor to continue work:
n/a

Current status of project: 
We are waiting for feedback on Project Scope and continuing research for written and oral presentation 1.  

Work completed in the last week:

• Completed project definition/scope and submitted for review
  
• Decided on detailed goal specifications based on background and needs described by client
  
• Decided on group roles for each team member and set goals with dates up to the 1st presentation/paper
  
• Decided on a system for tracking sources
  
• Conducted further research on background/current available solutions
  

Work planned for next week:

• Tuesday: each member will have finished last leg of research we anticipate we need
  
• Thursday: have detailed outline or rough draft of each section
  
• Individually: finish research and work on outline/draft 
  
• Make revisions to project scope as needed
  

Anything needed from client or TA or instructor to continue work:

• Feedback on project scope/definition as promised
  
• Information from canceled lecture about teamwork, maybe helpful in assigning group roles