The past week or so has been a rather large struggle.
We're falling farther and farther behind, unfortunately. An essential part of this project is the user testing: when we check to see if the technology we've created is actually intuitive and user-friendly... of course, we also want to make sure that it works, period.
Problem is, it doesn't.
We've been exceedingly close to being able to test, but every day we find another small bug in the program that keeps the haptic vest from being fully functional, and it takes us forever and a bit to figure out how to fix it.
To top it all off, one of my lab-mates (I will not say who, of course) managed to fry the compass we use to get the wearer's bearing, which sets us back even more, as now we have to wait while another compass is being ordered. Excellence. We have the compass built in to the Android phone to use in the meantime, but this just means we'll have to waste more time in the future re-integrating the other compass back into the program once we get it.
But, for now, I think we've managed to work through the bug that was holding us back today, so hopefully we'll be able to test first thing tomorrow.
Of course, we thought we'd be able to do that this morning.
And last Friday.
And the day before that.
Oh well, c'est la vie. We'll see tomorrow, fingers crossed.
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