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**Also will free up a bunch of our budget (skis on craigslist went for about $30, a good fifth of the budget) | **Also will free up a bunch of our budget (skis on craigslist went for about $30, a good fifth of the budget) | ||
**Will allow us to devote more time and effort to an already complicated system, the interface-heating pad system. | **Will allow us to devote more time and effort to an already complicated system, the interface-heating pad system. | ||
| − | * | + | *Amended our budget accordingly |
| + | **Included 9V battery adapter and wall power source | ||
| + | **Added a solderable breadboard | ||
| + | **Added potentiometers for the buttons | ||
| + | *We were having trouble deciding on the battery, but we are going to go ahead with Nathan's suggestion and simply, during the testing phase, use 9V batteries | ||
[[Category:Logs]] | [[Category:Logs]] | ||
[[Category:Spring 2017 Logs]] | [[Category:Spring 2017 Logs]] | ||
Revision as of 19:33, 17 February 2017
Week 1 (1/23-1/30)
After forming our team and consolidating our skill sets, we decided that we want to take our project to have a core of hardware/building, with minimal coding. Originally we were heading towards the path of a robot performing a simple task, but in the end we chose to build something that us three can be passionate about: a ski boot warmer powered by a solar panel.
Week 2 (1/30-2/5)
- Focused on breaking down our budget to be as specific as possible
- Met with our TA, Nathan Schmetter, about the logistics of our project.
- Brought up two types of heaters: (1) resistor-based (2) Peltier device heater
- Incorporate an Arduino to develop the temperature threshold system (allowing user to control temperature)
- Preliminary challenge identification
- Talked about how we plan on presenting our project at the demo
- Wrote up our project proposal, including the Gantt Chart
Week 3 (2/6-2/12)
- Met with Nathan to go over our proposal
- Then waited for Humberto's comments
- Amended our project proposal to address the flaws highlighted in our feedback, which included:
- Lack of detail in describing the user interface
- Omitting our beloved Nathan from our team members section
- Omitting general safety from our challenges
- Failing to reference the circuit tutorials we will be following to use Arduino to both heat up and adjust the temperature of the heating pads
- We also made a huge pivot in our project in eliminating the solar panel component
- This will remove the need of a UV light to demo
- Also will free up a bunch of our budget (skis on craigslist went for about $30, a good fifth of the budget)
- Will allow us to devote more time and effort to an already complicated system, the interface-heating pad system.
- Amended our budget accordingly
- Included 9V battery adapter and wall power source
- Added a solderable breadboard
- Added potentiometers for the buttons
- We were having trouble deciding on the battery, but we are going to go ahead with Nathan's suggestion and simply, during the testing phase, use 9V batteries
