Super busy week! We were expecting the vacuum chamber to ship, but unfortunately, it’s a bit behind schedule. Still hopeful that we’ll get it within the next week or two. We finished up the biodaq, chainmesh improvements, and tracking down some last unknowns before we’re ready for vacuum testing. We got some very sensitive thin film pressure sensors to dial in our ability to hit specific pressure levels through mesh changes. The biodaq isn’t intended to really track anything as closely as a patient monitor would, we just want some general health factors we can quantifiably track during vacuum chamber testing, while being as non-invasive for testing as possible. The increased urgency for better suits from NASA has really lit a fire underneath us, and the timing feels like it couldn’t be better. Beyond biodaq, we made a few improvements to chainmesh, ranging from improving how consistent the margins around printed links are, so that we can gain trust that the conversion between what happens in the computer and what gets manufactured is as minimal as possible. We also found some opportunities to move away from meshlab’s mesh processing and towards rolling our own, getting us better meshes and decreasing processing time, thereby increasing our iteration speed by a fair bit. Between those and other optimizations regarding collider geometry this week, most runs happen about 2x faster. I also got interviewed for an article, but that prob won’t come out for a while.