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Weekly Meetings

Meeting #1- 08/22/23
10:10 am - 11:10am

Deliverables:

  • Set up Senior Design webpage

  • ​Prepare 3 project ideas, with descriptions, block diagrams/flowchart
     

Discussion:

  • Discussed Syllabus

  • Upcoming deliverables after Idea is decided: Engineering Requirements, Specifications, Block Diagrams, Progress Log, Time and effort table, budgets and references

  • Discuss budget constraints.

Meeting #2- 09/06/23
6:45 pm - 8:00 pm

Deliverables:

  • Create Progress log, Time and effort, Add pages under design proposal.

  • Add References page and comparative table with existing projects and available products.

  • Create modular block diagram for chosen idea.

Discussion:

  • Discussed ideas prepared under project Ideas, reaching to the conclusion of choosing the Guitar Pedal Idea.

  • Discussed on how the guitar pedal idea might come to fruition along with technical requirements the project will involve.

Meeting #3- 09/13/23
6:45 pm - 7:25 pm

Deliverables:

  • Reach out to Neil and Professor Valery for professional opinions.

  • Update the progress log for each person’s progress for the week as well as group progress.

  • Work on the home page

  • Set requirements of the project

  • Update time effort, meeting minutes

Discussion:

  • Went over all aspects of the website and what to clean up. All links in the reference tab are researched.

  • Went into more depth on the electric guitar idea and selected that as our project.

Meeting #4- 09/20/23
6:45 pm - 7:34 pm

Deliverables:​

  • Reformat Home Page and include an attention grabber

  • Clean up engineering requirements page.

  • Conclude Engineering Specifications

  • Create a Timeline

  • Create Budget tabs (Power and Monetary)

  • Feedback by two professionals (Professor Valerie, Neil Bishop)

Discussion:

  • Discussed attention grabbers to incorporate into the webpages.

  • Went over the engineering requirements page and what needs to be changed as well as reference to other projects.

  • Went over workarounds for the ADC component and the best way to go forward with it in the project in terms of programming framework.

Meeting #5- 09/27/23
6:45 pm - 7:25 pm

Deliverables:

  • Create an attention grabber on the home page.

  • Clean up engineering requirements.

  • Engineering Specifications

  • Time and effort as well as progress log

  • Timeline

  • Budget tabs

  • Feedback from two professionals (Professor Valerie)

Discussion:

  • Discussed attention grabbers to incorporate into the webpages. Went over the engineering requirements page and what needs to be changed. Went over other projects as a reference. Went over the ADC component and the best way to go forward with it in the project.

Meeting #6- 09/20/23
6:49 pm - 8:05 pm

Deliverables:​

  • Fix Home Page: buttons, spelling, go more in-depth on the pedal board and the purpose of the project

  • Intro: Start simple assuming no prior knowledge. Remove links and our story. Explain what pedals are and then go in-depth into what the guitar is

Discussion:

  • Reviewed the individual pages on the website. Reviewed the requirements and revised the levels. Went over all the minor changes and spelling errors throughout the website. Discussed the errors of the home page as well as the menu boxes.

Meeting #7 - 10/11/23
6:48 pm - 7:44 pm

Deliverables:​

  • Fix the home page illustration

  • “The product Shall” on engineering requirements

  • Fix THD on engineering requirements

  • “Description of Audio Effects”

  • Distortion and Reverb descriptions contain grammatical errors

  • Add waveforms to the description of the effects 

  • Grammatical Mistakes in Engineering Specifications

  • Work on the abstract and start on Chapter 1

  • Work on the report 

  • timeline for the project

  • add links to the monetary budget

  • 7:10 is possible for next week

Discussion:

  • November 10th report is due, November 17th presentation. Add a caption and description of the homepage illustration. Analyzed the engineering requirements and what properties need to be expanded on. Discussed the research of the fundamentals of the distortion factors and how they will affect the system. Reviewed the progress of the week and the research that was done. Discussed the best means of creating a GUI. Discussed the beginning stages of the report and to begin constructing the abstract.

Meeting #8 - 10/18/23
7:23 pm - 8:02 pm

Deliverables:​

  • Add dates to the time and effort table.

  • Fix weeks and dates for the progress logs. 

  • Team member introduction

  • Take out proposal stuff and make it strictly project timeline

  • Gan chart

  • Monetary Budget Electronic components(Capacitors, potentiometers, resistors)

  • correct abstract

Discussion:

  • The presentation is on December 1st and is 20 minutes long, in person. Add waveforms to the engineering requirements. Engineering requirements grammatical errors. Reviewed all website pages and input.

Meeting #9 - 10/25/23
7:08 pm - 7:55 pm

Deliverables:​

  • GANTT chart, not GAN. Fix the timeline and the chart that contains this wording

  • Fix Blog

  • Fix abstract

  • Fix chapter 1 and start chapter 2

  • GUI Functionality

Discussion:

  • Reviewed the work done throughout the week. Analyzed the GUI that was created and the experiment that was conducted in the engineering lab. Went over the project proposal report and the changes that need to be made.

Meeting #10 - 10/30/23
1:02 pm - 1:16 pm

Deliverables:​

  • Reviewed the weekly progress. Reviewed the report and changes that need to be made going forward. 

Discussion:

  • Work on the GANTT Chart

  • Highlight changes made in the report.

  • Finish the report

Meeting #11 - 11/06/23
5:00 pm - 6:31 pm

Deliverables:​

  • Reviewed each weekly time and effort as well as progress logs and discussed the progress made through the week. Read the entire report proposal and discussed changes that needed to be made.

Discussion:

  • -add labels to figures

  • -fix notes in the proposal report

  • -fix chapter 2 and highlight the changes that were made

Meeting #12 - 11/13/23
1:00 pm - 1:36 pm

Deliverables:​

  • add links to effects

  • 2.6 Preliminary work

  • restructure 2.5.2 and put the work done in the prototype section

  • Add the budget table

  • Add ethical aspects (IEEE Code of Ethics)

  • Chapter 3 needs to be finished

  • Finish chapter 4

  • center all figures

Discussion:

Reviewed the weekly progress. Analyzed the report proposal.

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