Don't Fret Log

Link to Project Page

Link to Project: https://classes.engineering.wustl.edu/ese205/core/index.php?title=Don%27t_Fret

Week of January 22

• Whole Group - We attended the initial meeting and brainstormed ideas for the project. Informed that Ty Dalinghaus will not be continuing on our project.

Week of January 29

• Whole Group - Discussed detailed ideas and switched from initial idea of a locking mechanism to a guitar pedal after realization of common interest.
• Chance and GraceAnne - Attended meeting with TA and Prof. Discussed and confirmed new idea of effect pedal and made sure of the reality of running it through a Raspberry Pi.
• Chance - Setup and formatted Wiki page and log.

Week of February 5

• Whole Group - Made Ghant chart and solidified specifics goals as well as how to build off of the guide we are using which can be found here: https://www.electrosmash.com/pedal-pi That addition is redesigning the Raspberry Pi mechanism so that it handles two separate triggers for two separate effects in one housing.
• Whole Group - Met to discuss and list materials that are needed, taking most of the ideas for what is needed from our guide. Discussed that capacitors and resistors do not need to purchased but can be supplied via the lab.
• Whole Group - Picked up Raspberry Pi and attended tutorial on how to get the Raspberry Pi up and running. Received locker and combo.

• Challenges for Next Week: Challenges for next week are putting together the project proposal for Friday (2/16) and setting up the Pi so we can move ahead with the coding as well as ordering all of the materials following the project proposal.

Week of February 12

• Chance - Went in on Sunday evening (2/11) to setup the Pi. While in lab realized that the Pi was lacking a cord for the power supply which cut this session short. Waiting for a cord to continue.
• Chance and GraceAnne - Came in on Tuesday (2/13) to work on setup of the Pi with the power cord that John set out for us on Monday evening but locker would not open? Will address this issue with John and ask if he put powersource on top of locker because it would not open. Used this time to work on presentation. Chance took power source and now has it on his person.
• Whole Group - Worked on project proposal slides and presentation for Friday. As of Tuesday (2/13) this is nearly complete and will be done by the meeting with TA and Prof tomorrow so they can preview it prior to presentation on Friday.
• Chance - Updated the wiki page with the final objectives, ghant chart, etc because they had not been since we decided on initial idea.

Week of February 19

• GraceAnne and Jared - Worked in lab on setting up the Pi by downloading noobs onto the micro SD and started to set up SSH on the pi but ran into network issues. The IP kept timing out.
• Chance - Did research on voltage and process of the pedal. Met with Jim to talk about this and the circuitry. Booted up Pi and completed SSH. Also set up a git repository to save code that is done on the Pi.
• Whole Group - Began ordering parts needed for construction.

Looking forward: With parts coming in our current objective is to replicate what is done on the guide we are following in the attempt of having it in working order by Spring break so we can focus on adding a second function and printing the case. As noted we will have to know the basic dimensions of the case so that we know the size of the circuit board that we need to use. Some of the challenges facing us next week are adapting the code from electrosmash, understanding the circuitry and making sure all of our parts are here and that we have everything.

(2/21/2018) Whole Group (60 minutes) - Had our meeting with John and Jim. Established goal of getting LED to blink so we can understand how the pins on the Raspberry Pi work and Chance got the rest of the group up to speed on booting up the pi and being able to SSH to it. The hope/reach goal is to have a one function "pedal" working via a breadboard by the start of Spring break which is March 9th so we can move to adding multiple effects and casing post break.

(2/22/2018) Chance (30 minutes) - linked all the parts to the mouser pages that I ordered from and ordered parts.