## Exercise 1. Define what kind of release you are working towards.
**Scope:** an alpha-prototype meant to get feedback from early adopters (myself and a cytotechnician).

## Exercise 2. Release planning notes
### Release notes
- What is the status of the project?
- Working on a second prototype which it is expected to have the desired characteristics of the final design (hopefully an alpha release that can be tested in a rural health center).
- What features were implemented?
- Redesign of mechanical setup.
- Fix bugs associated with the PCB design.
- Implementation of fluorescence capabilities via specific LED and filter.
- Add parts that were left outside the previous prototype: fan for the Raspberry, touchscreen, filters for fluorescence.
- Add your semantic versioning if applicable
- 1.0.0 ??

### List of to-dos for release:
- [ ] Manufacturing (we are currently machining aluminium parts in a CNC) and testing new designs of mechanical parts; we are completely modifying the design of the XY stage and changing the inverted initial configuration.
- [ ] Redesign PCB; we want to fix a Z-motor issue and to add a light intensity regulator (might be a potentiometer).
- [ ] Assemble and test new design.
- [ ] Test fluorescence.
- [ ] Finish GUI for controlling basic functions.

- [ ] Documentation:
- [ ] Define licenses for hardware and software.
- [ ] Improve documentation background (device capabilities, costs, comparison against similar projects, ... ).
- [ ] List of materials and assembly instructions.
- [ ] Source files.
- [ ] List of resources needed to build.