This week, the team continued to assemble, test, and troubleshoot the main boards and sub-modules. On Monday, we got straight into working on the main board that was started last week. After removing the faulty pieces, the board seemed to be operating correctly, however, upon plugging in to the laptop we found there was an issue with the chip. Tom worked to determine the issue while documenting his findings but ultimately determined that we would not be able to continue without the use of an X-ray machine to make sure the chip was soldered correctly.

We reached out to Dr. Asadi who was kind enough to let us use his lab and took a trip to look at our board under an X-ray machine. After scanning our board, we were able to determine that our soldering was correct and therefore, that our chip was the issue instead.

It wasn’t all bad news from this week though, as Tom was able to assemble all three sub-modules for our prototype and they were all fully functioning. Additionally, we have ordered and received replacement parts for the main board and will be finishing up assembly Monday morning!