Weekly Reports

Week 2: Sept 9-12

This week, the two of us met to discuss our first and second choices for the class project. We did some initial research in terms of pricing, components, feasibility, and optical design for each of the project choices. Based on this research we have decided our first choice will be the Traffic Observer. For this project we have investigated possible optical sources, as well as ideal microcontrollers available for data logging. Premilimary designs and cost allocations have been made according to parts found on websites such as digikey.ca and globalspec.com. We are continuing to research the feasibility of the remaining two topics to decide which one will be our second choice.