Soil Log

Week 1 (9/4 - 9/8)

We began talking about the project and our objectives. We met with Natalie in class on Friday and it was brought to our attention that the project may be too easy and not take that long to complete. With this in mind, we began brainstorming different ideas to maker project harder while not over-shooting the bar. Some ideas we have thought about are an app that can connect to the mechanical system, using bluetooth with the arduino to connect the mechanical component to a phone, or adding a more sophisticated mechanical component (specifics not yet thought of).

Week 2 (9/11 - 9/15)

Our goal this week was to finalize how we would proceed with our project. After meeting with Natalie we narrowed our options down to the app with a raspberry pi connecting to the mechanical component, or an app with the arduino that connects to the mechanical component (this can be messy and difficult though). We took these thoughts into our meeting with Professor Feher where we learned more about how the raspberry pi operates and what we can do with it. AN interesting thing we learned is that we can create a web application using the pi. After learning this, we came to the conclusion that we will be using a raspberry pi to create a web server and use the Arduino as an ADC in order to allow the raspberry pi to connect to our mechanical component. Using Python and coding the Pi will be a new to the both of us so it will take up quite a bit of time. We will now be working to figure out a design for our project so we can get started with the mechanical parts.