Week 2 brought a lot more clarity to our project, as this was the week we were able to connect with potential users here at Rice EMS. We were able to set up a meeting with them and talk to a few EMTs on campus to gain more information about our problem, as we were having difficulty understanding it in context. After connecting with REMS we had a clearer picture of what problem we were trying to solve, and they were able to handle our device and give us a lot of useful advice and features that they would have liked to see. This gave us some direction for our brainstorming which we started doing towards the end of the week. We found that breaking down our problem into a few components was a lot more productive to brainstorm then full solutions, at least at that point in the process.

We also began to split up the tasks of the project into 4 main groups: Electrical, Coding, CADing, and Human Factors. I was the lead on the electrical aspect of the project, and for me that meant that I would be taking the current circuit and moving it from a bread board to a perfboard to increase the stability of the previous teams prototype. I am looking forward to next week because I have always been fascinated by Electrical work, and so this was a good time for me to learn some new skills related to that field. It sounds like it may be difficult, but I also find that difficulty is part of the charm of learning new skills, so I am ready for what week 3 throws at me!