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
9/28 – "Finishing Proposal"
- Kenneth: Completed budget / research communication further – 1.25 hour
Goals for Next Week:
- Be able to ssh into pi
- Make sure all materials have been ordered
- Make sure basic pi circuit is functioning
- Finish night light
- Make sure everybody is comfortable using pi
- Establish method that we will work together for the rest of the project (working alone and adding notes to google drive, finding times to work together, etc)
Week Five: September 30
9/29 - Continuing Work on Pi: 2 Hours
- Gillian worked on pi to try to ssh, but encountered some issues that required software installation which took a while.
- Currently still facing problems logging in.
9/29 - "Printing Night Light: 30 minutes"
- Kenneth spent 3 hours trying to configure his annoying printer to work properly
- ~about half an hour was dedicated to the night light file.
9/30 - Continuing fixing the Pi: 1 hour, 15 minutes
- Kenneth came to lab to try and fix pi. Unsuccessful.
10/1 - Continuing fixing the Pi: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Gillian and Chance fixed the pi issue
10/2 - Gillian working in Lab: 1 hour 30 minutes
- can successfully ssh into pi
- tried multiple times to get the email to send with the IP address, unsuccessful
10/2 – Kenneth finishing Night light: 30 minutes
- had to re-solder battery connections and assemble ()
10/2 - Brief Check-in with project group: 15 minutes
- updated everyone on progress
- Andre is going to put his notes about sensors in the google drive
- Gillian is going to show Kenneth and Andre how to operate the pi
- ALL materials have been ordered. Vest is in locker
10/3 - Gillian continued work in lab: 1hour, 30 minutes
- Couldnt figure out how to install ssmpt on pi, so sent Jim an email
- Without ssmpt, cannot send email with IP address
- Looked into installing VNC, but Gillian doesn't have space on personal computer to install (if Kenneth and Andre do though, she can walk them through how to do so)
- Created GitHub for project, and cloned the repo to the pi
- Found code from project that Gillian tried to get to the pi, download failed, will try again later when she has more time
10/3 - Kenneth finished ordering all components: 30 minutes
- Researching the LED Light Matrix and its connector to the pi.
- Ordered correct matrix and connector(bonnet)
- ALL COMPONENTS ORDERED
10/4: Gillian continued work in the lab: 1 hour
- connected pi with filezilla
- having trouble cloning the github repo to pi, didn't want to spend too much time troubleshooting that so will do that later.
- wrote two python programs which can control 1) a blinking LED (blinking.py), and 2) a light (lightcontroller.py). I don't have the breadboard or an LED so I couldn't actually hook up the circuit, but the code should work! I commented the source at the top of both codes if Andre/Kenneth would like to reference that.
- I've been having trouble installing some of the packages of code, so I have a sinking feeling that something may be wrong there. I have attached a screenshot of the error message I get when I go to "sudo apt-get update"
10/5: "Basic circuits with the Pi: 2 hours 30 min"
- Kenneth completed the blinking light circuit with a sample breadboard and implementing Gillian's blink code (pin 8)
- Kenneth worked at creating a potentiometer circuit that displays analog data to the serial monitor .
- Following this tutorial Potentiometer Circ.
