MSD II Week 5 UpdateP13265: Motorcycle Safety Lighting and Portable Electronics Charging System

Mike: Action Items Status

• Lens Coverso Incomplete:

Shell is ~2 weeks behind schedule Material arrived early this week

• Test XBee's and Bullet Connectors on Bike w/TJo Incomplete, due to XBee unitso Will test this weekend depending on XBee status

• Tech Papero In Progresso Need to review with TJ, no more content to add from

me until build is furthered

Mike: Next Steps for Week 6

• Begin Making Lens Covers ~ ?

• Assist with light wiring~ 2 hrs

Tyler: Action Items Status

• Shell Rework/Remakeo Incompleteo Have not been able to complete much because of

Killian being sick. Material purchased and cut, will be pieced together today and sanded to form. Plan to get shell manufactured Sunday.

• Assembly Plan 75% Doneo Complete

• Postero Incomplete, not much time to work on Poster due to

Killian being sick and other work. Major work to be completed on it once shell is finished.

Tyler: Next Steps for Week 6

• Finish new mold ~6 hrs

• Finish shell ~3 hrs

• Shell Assembly ~15 hrs

• Poster Work ~5hrs

• Assembly Plan (Final details will be completed alongside the actual assembly of thr backpack)

• EDGE update ~3 hrs

Ben: Action Items Status

• Finish electronics housing box o complete, minus glue

o This took far more time than I anticipated

o Machine screws were changed in favor of sheet metal screws

• Other:o I tried to reach Andy this week but prior commitments prevented us

from meeting (this is to take measurement of his motorcycle)

o Quick connect assembly plan was written

o Tx box alterations are still on hold until internal components are configured

Ben: Next Steps for Week 5

• Glue remaining pieces in place

• Meet with Andy Nauss and complete work on quick connect

Eric: Action Item Status

• Continue MSP430 Developmento In Progresso Framework is continuously being modified.

• Board error identificationo Completeo All errors located, documented.

Eric: Next Steps for Week 6

• MSP430 Development ~ 15 hours

• Assist TJ with board build and test

TJ: Action Items Status

• Continue Tech Papero Completeo Added more paragraphs to revise with Mike

• Populate PCBso In Progresso Meeting with Dr. Fuller to manufacture adapterso Will spend Friday in the lab

• Test XBee Units and Document Testso In Progresso New Units in and Old Units sent to Digikey for review

TJ: Next Steps for Week 6• Continue Tech Paper ~ 2 Hours

• Populate PCBs ~ 10 Hours

• Test XBee's in Lab and on Bike ~ 2 Hours

• EDGE Update ~ 2 Hours

Killian: Action Items Status

• Vacuum Form the control panel 3 times, sand and assemble: In Progress

• Continue Sketching internal pockets/configurations: In Progress

• Develop possible branding (product name, logo): In progress

Killian: Next Steps for Week 4

• Refine Sketches and concepts and start to render in photoshop and illustrator~8 hours

• Assist Tyler in backpack assembly~5 hours

• Assist Tyler with poster layout?~2 hours?

Major Week 6 Action Items

Mike- Lens Covers (hopefully) TJ - Populate PCBs

Lessons Learned

• Mikeo A backup plan will be necessary to complete our final assembly by

Imagine RIT.

• Tylero A good fallback plan for the mold was not in place which has pushed

it's completion time back even more.

• Beno What i said about being in the machine shop after 9 isn't necessarily

true anymore- a student was caught with an illegal item they supposedly fabricated in the machine shop so now hours are more rigidly enforced

o check, check and then check again when making measurements

Lessons Learned cont.

• Erico Travelling for interviews takes more time and is more

distracting than expected.

• TJo Capabilities to make small 'adaptors' for the EH

board and can do this in house, thus saving the group some money

• Killiano I'm not surprisingly good at not sleeping, I get sick

the next week.