BetaDelta Log

Week of January 27, 2017

• Brainstormed project ideas

1. Our main focus was on a website that provides realtime updates about the availability of South 40 study rooms

• Held first meeting with our TA
• Began work on our proposal

Week of February 3, 2017

• Met with TA to finalize our project idea as well as work on some of its highlights

1. Highlights that we decided we would like to include:
   1. User input ability, where students can publicize which subjects are being studied in specific study rooms
   2. The detection of room occupation via light sensor
   3. A history log of past room availabilities, so that students can make predictions for future study plans

• Finished writing the proposal as a team

Week of February 10, 2017

• Refined proposal
  • Edited Gantt chart and budget
• Team decisions:
  • Add both motion and sound detectors to the light sensor, all of which will be hooked up to our raspberry pi
    • This will allow more accurate prediction on whether or not the room is occupied
• Began learning how to code in python
• Began brainstorming design ideas for Raspberry Pi casing
  • Official design must wait until materials arrive

Week of February 17, 2017

• Edited Gantt chart and budget
• Worked on recommendations from our TA about our proposal:
  • Streamlined our objectives
• Continued python education
• Edited design for Raspberry Pi casing
  • Still waiting on materials to be ordered and shipped

Week of February 24, 2017

• Heavy exam week for systems engineers (includes all three team members)
• Downloaded Google SketchUp for 3D printing design and began learning how it works
• Continued brainstorming ideas for raspberry pi casing
• Continued learning python
• Obtained our raspberry pi

Week of March 3, 2017

• Added a highlight to the BetaDelta website: users can now see a ranking of study rooms based on their probability of being available
• Discussed how the website will display information for each study room
  • Light sensor: "on" or "off"
  • Motion and sound sensor - will report most recent indication of activity
• Edited our budget:
  • Included the specific website host for BetaDelta
  • Got rid of the ethernet cord (using a wifi dongle instead)