Week 15: System Integration

This week, we were advised to continue working on our final project. In particular, our task was to consider integrating all components of the system in a nice way. The system integration section for my final project can be found here.

This Week’s Tasks

• Design and document the system integration for your final project

What to Think About

This week’s lecture covered what could go wrong when designing a product from an engineer’s perspective and how to circumvent that. Topics covered were usability, design for machining, documentation tools accompanying the design process (OSH and a KiCad BOM extension). We were advised to design nice packaging for our product (considering surface finish, look & feel, shape, …) and to consider the routing and mounting of wires. Basic quality assurance methods were highlighted (shaking, burn-in, power cycling, etc.). as an example assignment, I looked at the one by Edwin Dertien. More notes on this can be found in my lecture notes.

Digitial Files

The digital files for this assignment are the ones provided on the final project page.

Use of Language Models

During writing this report, I did not use any language models.