Getting closer!

We finally got some data from the suit! Everything is sewn up and ready to go, except for the wireless communication from the suit, hence the cord in the picture. The reason the wireless communication is not working is a hardware fault, and more explanation can be found on Michael's blog: http://scriptogr.am/mkosler/post/csce-489-final-project-update

In onther news, Sarah is injured. I am pretty bummed that she will not be able to perform the dance because she has put a lot of work and herself into the project. However, her replacement dancer, Juliet, seems to be doing a good job picking up Sarah's choreography. I just hope Sarah heals quickly!

Final Project Update

After our progress today, I am excited because I think we should be able to finish in time to get Sarah two weeks to work with the system! The extra week sure helped. All we are waiting for at this point is getting the XBEE to work, finishing up the sewing, and some minor touch ups before we can put everything together, which should happen at our meeting on Sunday. 

Morgan and I worked to add some new effects to the sound output that I am really pleased with. Now, instead of the volume just changing the decibel output, it uses a filter to make somewhat of a "woosh" effect. I think this is very valuable because:

• it sounds cool
• it makes the volume changes more salient

Final Project progress

Today the group met to try to get a prototype finished for tomorrow. We are still lacking the gyroscope, which may or may not make it to the final project. Everything should be able to be working by tomorrow if we can get all of the sewing done and all of the parts merged together.

Since we have so much work to do, we had Sarah working on circuit design!

Getting meaningful data from the accelerometer for the first time!