Goals for the week-

• Finalize design ideas and develop a high level design plan for the different system components.
• Finalize hardware parts to buy and submit Project Proposal.

Tasks completed-

• Peter: Researched hardware components for Proposal and started conceptual design for motor control and PowerBoost usage.
• Nakul: Researched existing solutions, developed high-level design plan and started software design for charging status display.

Challenges-

• Choosing how to deal with low sunlight situations. We settled on one of our researched solution to use real-time tracking with regular updates to motor position.
• Deciding between a stepper and servo motor. It was a difficult decision and we opted for a servo due to the simpler control mechanism.

Plan for next week-

• Peter: Test solar panel rotation using the servo motor. Implement the PID control loop.
• Nakul: Monitor battery levels in software and output status on LCD or using 4 LEDs. Look into how the sleep mode for PIC32 works.