Project Status

WeeksProgress Report
Week 1 & 2 ( 8/29 – 9/12)– Coordinated weekly meetings with our advisor. 
– Put in our request for our website URL.
– Completed our Design Review 1.
Week 3 & 4 ( 9/12 – 9/26)– Completed our Systems Engineering Spec 
– Completed Hardware and Software Spec. 
– Created our website. 
– Finalized Schedule/Gantt chart 
– Design Review 2.
Weeks 5 & 6 ( 9/26 – 10/10)– Finalized Parts 
– Ordered  & Received Parts 
– Preliminary Testing of PSoC
Weeks 7 & 8 ( 10/10 – 10/24)– Completed Design Review 3
– Wired Power Supply 
– Mapped Pins 
– Wired board to PSoc and Power Supply
– Created User Interface CLI in C
– Started Serial Communication Protocol 
Weeks 9 & 10 ( 10/24 – 11/7)
– Got RGB board to light up rows and column
– Working on debugging lighting up a single pixel
– Serial Communication Protocol fInished
Weeks 11 & 12 ( 11/7 – 11/ 21)– Mapped all characters
– Created bitmapped font
– Rendered one character onto the diplay
– Got all colors to work
Weeks 13 & 14 (11/21 – 12/5)– Combined PSoC code and Serial Communication Code
to work together to render text.
– Render 5 characters onto display with no flickering
Weeks 15 & 16 (12/5 – 12/19)– Finished Final Report
– Finished Poster
– Completed Live Demo
Winter Break
Weeks 17 & 18 (1/30 – 2/13)– Design Review
– Chained Displays
– Added animaion to menu and user options
– Added input validation for text, color, scroll, and
animation options
– Send user scroll and animation selection through
serial port
Weeks 19 & 20 (2/13 – 2/27)– Implemented scrolling feature ( 2 speeds)
– Test PSoC code can communicate with all CLI
commands
– Added mapping for numbers and special characters
Weeks 21 & 22 (2/27 – 3/13)TCF Presentation
Weeks 23 & 24 (3/13 – 3/27)– Met with Joe Zanetti about casing
– Sketched out casing with dimensions
– Add all colors along with scroll options in PSoC code
Weeks 25 & 26 (3/27 – 4/10)– Debugging Scolling Flickering
– Debugging Secod Line Implementation
Weeks 27 & 28 (4/10 – 4/24)– Start final report
– Work on COSA presentation
– Test all use cases
Weeks 28 & 29 (4/24 – 5/8)– Prepare for Demo
-Finish Final Report