Smarter Door Log

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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

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)

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)

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)
(120 minutes, 2/23) got Pi to send texts to phone, looking into sending texts back

(60 minutes, 2/24) met with Ethan to discuss software outline (whole group)
(30 minutes, 2/25) got text working with Node.js (Johnny)
(120 minutes, 2/25) tried to get webhook working to reply to texts (Johnny)
(60 minutes, 2/26) set up Lightsail server (Johnny)
(60 minutes, 2/26) researched ways to set up camera/motion sensor, added tabs to keep lid on base of nightlight (Katie)
(90 minutes, 2/27) set up camera with raspberry pi and created code in python to take and save pictures, didn't know how to code it in Node.js (Katie)
(60 minutes, 2/27) tried to set up motion sensor, wrote script and started wiring (Johnny)

Things to work on next week: getting the camera set up with the raspberry pi and figuring out how to text pictures from it with Twilio, setting up motion sensor/brainstorming ideas to not take picture of person who walks by the door,