Month: 2024-11 — Concise monthly summary for the neurobionics/opensourceleg repository focused on feature delivery and reliability improvements. Key deliverable: Dephy Actuator Hardware Control Testing Script. Summary of impact: Implemented an Python-based testing tool that enables controlled testing of Dephy actuator hardware across current, position, voltage, and torque modes, with robust state logging and error handling. This provides a repeatable, traceable hardware validation workflow, reducing manual testing efforts and increasing test reliability for hardware-in-the-loop validation. No major bug fixes were logged this month; the focus was on feature development and stability hardening of the testing workflow. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Python scripting for hardware control, state logging, exception handling (OSError, KeyboardInterrupt), and version-controlled commits. Notes: The key commit included is e8d745bbec106e455cf7848872ad0339a6853aaa with the message "Initial hardware test script for position, current, voltage, & torque control of dephy actuator".