This weekly report summarizes the progress made on a student project to design a circuit to control the heating phase of a coil in an electric kettle. The student designed a circuit using an opto-isolator to use low power to trigger a triac, which would then control the high power to the heating coil. The student researched the characteristics of triacs and opto-isolators from datasheets. The main problem is designing the circuit to be compatible with the coil. Next week, the student will design the circuit to be compatible with and test it with the real coil.