Zesty Vesty Weekly Log
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Week One: September 3
9/04 1hr – Preliminary Idea Meeting
- All group discussed ideas we might be interested in pursuing along with feasibilities.
- Discussed the idea of an internet-connected, sensing, alarm clock that could provide useful morning data
9/06 1 hr - Second Meeting
- We made our wiki page and weekly log page
- Finalized our project idea: The Dorm Buddy
- Discussed goals for our “dorm buddy”:
Week Two: September 9
9/10 - Meeting with Professor Feher and TA Chance
- Discussed project idea
- Polished wikis
- Discussed night light
9/12 - Group Meeting to Finalize Idea
- honed our idea of making a "dorm buddy"
- came up with a more detailed project outline
- discussed our personal goals (what we specifically want to get out of the project), and features we were most interested in having in our creation
9/12 - Meeting with Pro
9/14 - Meeting with Professor Feher and TA Chance from 2:10-3:00 pm
9/15 - Began construction of the circuit and designed the case for the night light from 2:00-5:30m
Week Three: September 16
9/15-9/16 - Brainstormed and Researched Individually: 1 hour
- We continued brainstorming project ideas and di research on other items on the market
- Recorded in shared google doc
9/18 - Conference Call to Discuss Project Idea : 9:00-10:30 pm
- Discussed themes of our idea: safety, personal health, fun
- Ended with our default idea being an IoT Light Jacket
- Decided on the use of Raspberry Pi as our go to system for the project
- Over Particle photon due to its greater versatility including bluetooth application
9/20 - Meeting to work on Gantt Chart and Budget: 9:00-10:00 am, evening
- worked on Gantt Chart
- developed a list of things we need to buy
- finalized the specifics of our project
- started work on project proposal presentation
- worked individually on project proposal
- Kenneth: budget
- Gillian: Gantt Chart
- Andre: Project Proposal
9/21 - Finalizing Project Proposal: 12:30 - 2:00
- Gillian finalized project proposal
- Kenneth soldered night light circuit
9/21 - Weekly Meeting with Prof. Feher and Chance: 1 hour
- discussed final project idea
- set goals for week four
Week Four: September 23
9/25 - Working on Presentation and Finalizing Budget: 1.5 hours
- Gillian: presentation work
- Kenneth: finalizing design for night light case
9/26- Basic Setting up of Pi: 1 hour
- Gillian: set up pi and downloaded latest version of stretch
- Created project Github
- Andre: Researched various methods for sensory data collection-2 hours
9/27 - Continuing Set Up of Pi and Printing Night Light: 2 Hours
- Gillian: continued setting up pi and researching similar pi project libraries (links on project page)
- Kenneth: worked on 3D printing shell for night light
- Andre: Continued researching sensory data collection for vest-1 hour
