Smarter Door Log
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Contents
Link to Project page
Week 1: January 20-26
- 1 hour meeting in class to finalize group members and discuss project ideas
Week 2: January 27 - February 2
- 30 minute group meeting with Ethan and Professor Fehr to discuss specifics of the project
- Discussed completing Night Light and Amazon Web Service Projects
- Planned meeting for the 30th to decide the mechanical portion of the project
- Added the red light to the design of the project, got rid of the locking aspect
- 30 minute group meeting on 1/30 to determine final hardware of project
- 1 hr starting blackjack and downloading software (Katie)
- 1.5 hours setting up Gantt chart and budget
- 30 minute group meeting to finalize wiki project proposal
- 2 hours work on Blackjack, stuck on setting up respository structure (Johnny)
- 2 hours building night light circuit and attempting to set up raspberry pi, got stuck on entering username and password
- Goals for next week: Finish Night Light, Set up Raspberry Pi, Work on Blackjack
Week 3: February 3 - February 9
- 1 hour research on texting capabilities from Pi (Johnny)
- Twilio can send text and image
- Met with Ethan and Professor Fehr, decided to focus on Raspberry Pi setup and figuring out how to text the Raspberry Pi
- Begin to think about presentation slides
- Encountered issues with logging into Raspberry Pi, downloaded different version of operating system, trying again on Thursday
- Finished setting up Raspberry Pi, could SSH, but struggling to get Pi to email IPN (Johnny)
- 1 hour research on Twilio's ability to and costs of sending SMS and picture messages, still unsure if two way communication is possible (Katie)
- Attempted to get Pi to email IPN, tried new password and still stuck (Katie)
Week 3: February 10 - February 16
- Met in lab (1.5 hours) to work on nightlight and various raspberry pi projects (Andrew and Katie)
- Attempted again to finish the SSHing of raspberry pi, still unsuccessful at getting Pi to email IPN
- added an additional LED to the night light project
- wrote code in python to get our raspberry pi to blink an LED on and off
- Made outline for presentation (Johnny)
- Added presentation to project page
- Plan to outline code
- Goals: finish Blackjack, complete goal outline, buy parts, get Twilio texting
- Got the Pi email working (Johnny)
- Worked on Blackjack Tutorial 1 hour (Johnny)
Week 4: February 17-24
- Goals: get camera working, work on blackjack, wireframe code/ui, get texting working, finish nightlight
- (30 minutes) Finished presentation for Friday (Johnny)
- (90 minutes) Worked on Blackjack, confused with Client Script (Johnny)
- (60 minutes, 2/21) Worked on presentation for Friday (Katie)
- (30 minutes, 2/21) Ordered motion sensor from designated link (Katie)
- (90 minutes, 2/22) worked on learning Onshape and printing 3D box (Katie)
- (60 minutes, 2/23) worked more on printing 3D box for nightlight, done with everything just need to confirm positions of openings for LEDs and switch once the nightlight is soldered (Katie)
