Amber Horvath Winter Update 7

This week I've primarily been working on the SD card implementation. While testing the software earlier this week, I realized that something must be wrong on the EE's side of the implementation effort as our card wasn't even able to initialize properly. I met with Jonathan and we got that part working while also giving me a bit of code that I could use to test line-by-line the implementation of the library we're using to isolate errors and either fix or hand off depending how outside of my abilities they are. So, as I've stepped through the code, I've isolated and fixed multiple errors. However, this is a very slow task so despite me putting hours into this effort progress has been slow-going. This is a very large library with lots of lines of code that's functionality is kind of obscured and with minimal ability to debug (just a single set of changing LED lights depending upon whether conditions pass or fail) this has been rather difficult.

I will continue working on getting this SD card implementation working but will change my time needs as necessary, especially once the arm is in a state where code is ready to be written for it. However, that is not the case in this current time.

Blockers are mainly that this is challenging and I am looking for outside support outside of Jonathan who says he won't really have time to help me until dead week. I've emailed Roger Traylor but he does not seem super familiar with this branch of work. I might also email Ben Lee.