I'm very excited as this is my first time taking on a big task. I'm a senior in my college's EEE program and am trying to come up with an interesting design but the struggle has been real. At the moment I'm working on implementing a fingerprint sensor with a Raspberry Pi 4 onto a kiosk that I will demo but the brunt of my demo is the battery backup system. I've designed it so that in the event of a sudden power failure, the system will continue to work for a few hours uninterrupted. The trouble now is actually getting it to function. I don't know if its because I've been staring at the project in the face for the past week or if I've even been staring and working on it for the past 12 hours now, but I simply cannot get the, in my eyes, most simplest of ideas to work. It's all sound in theory but there just must be something I'm overlooking. I just wish I knew what it was. I'm sure I'm not the only person that has done this. A lot of the parts have come on modules already built so they already have the necessary resistors and capacitors and what not. Sure I had to do some calculations to make sure nothing was getting eaten up and I didn't see anything out of the ordinary...but man...the struggle is real. I guess this is what awaits me. How does one cope with these struggles? Especially on time crunch deadlines. I could use some coffee and a chiropractor.
