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Progress Log
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John Waters
Apr 6, 2022
Design Week 13: 4/4-4/11
This week the team continued preparing the testing results for presentation. Writing of the first draft of the project report was also...
John Waters
Mar 31, 2022
Design Week 12: 3/28-4/4
After a day of troubleshooting on Sunday, the team decided to meet as many times this week as possible to conduct testing of the device....
Hunter Keating
Mar 24, 2022
Lesson #4: Thorough Examination of Components Before Activating:
A valuable lesson that should be considered is, if your project involves working with many components or devices that are un-covered,...
John Waters
Mar 24, 2022
Design Week 11: 3/21-3/28
This week the team continued finalizing the project in preparation for device testing. The team met on Tuesday again at West campus in...
John Waters
Mar 24, 2022
Design Week 10: 3/14-3/21
This week the team continued to hustle towards the rapidly approaching 90% completion deadline. During their weekly Tuesday meeting on...
Hunter Keating
Mar 17, 2022
Design Week 9: 3/7-3/14
Over the Spring break the team moved into overdrive to push the project along. The team met during the week to test the power amp...
Hunter Keating
Mar 17, 2022
Design Week 8: 2/28-3/7
This week the team met again on West Campus to conduct some more testing on the CODEC and DAC output circuit. Unfortunately the team...
Hunter Keating
Mar 15, 2022
Design Week 7: 2/21-2/28
This week the team continued working on the input and output stages of the device. The team met on Tuesday at West Campus to troubleshoot...
Hunter Keating
Mar 8, 2022
Lesson #3: Shielded VS. Unshielded (Bobbin Core) Inductors
Inductors are available in many different styles and can come shielded or unshielded. Initially the first power supply prototype included...
Hunter Keating
Mar 1, 2022
Lessons Learned #2: Linear Regulators VS Switching Regulators
While our team was testing the performance of the power supply's output voltage, the 12 and 5V linear regulators became too hot and...
John Waters
Feb 24, 2022
Design Week 6: 2/14-2/21
This week the team met at the west campus open lab to test the power supply prototype board. The Power Supply passed our maximum...
Hunter Keating
Feb 17, 2022
Design Week 5: 2/7 - 2/14 (Week 20)
This week the team completed preparations for testing the Power Supply. Construction of the supply with switching regulators was...
John Waters
Feb 16, 2022
Design Week 4: 1/31 - 2/7 (Week 19)
This week the team continued working on the power supply, Arduino/touchscreen UI, and microphone preamp. Team Tuesday afternoon the team...
John Waters
Feb 1, 2022
Design Week 3: 1/24 - 1/31 (Week 18)
This week the team met throughout the week to expedite the completion of the AC-DC power supply, DER / Success Criteria documents, and...
John Waters
Jan 26, 2022
Lesson #1: Linear Voltage Regulators
When working with Linear Voltage Regulators it is important to take a good look at the datasheet for each model you are using. Never...
John Waters
Jan 26, 2022
Design Week 2: 1/17-1/24 (Week 17)
This week the team worked on assembling some of the device's modules, preparing future posts, and revising some of the proposal...
John Waters
Jan 19, 2022
Design Week 1: 1/10-1/17 (Week 16)
During the first week of the design/implementation semester, the team began working on the preliminary steps of implementation. This...
John Waters
Jan 10, 2022
Winter Break
Over the break the group purchased a large list of components needed for implementation of the project. All passive and active components...
John Waters
Dec 2, 2021
Week 15 11/29-12/6
This week the team worked on completing the final Proposal Presentation, set for Saturday December 4th from 3:30 to 3:50pm. Hunter The...
John Waters
Dec 1, 2021
Week 14 11/22-11/29
This week the team worked on finalizing the project report and preparing for the Proposal Presentation. John John worked on finalizing...
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