======All Hands Meeting- April 2, 2016======

=====Reminders=====
  * **Communication**
    * Email
      * Please remember to check your email daily
      * Emails should be responded to within 24 hours
      * This includes Google Calendar invites!
  * **x96 and 499 Papers**
    * Deadline: Friday of finals week, **May 13**
    * Submission: Google Drive folder
      * Link to folder will be sent out later
    * Content: describe work done for your project
      * Papers should include:
        * Cover page
        * Abstract
        * Introduction
        * Main body
        * Conclusions
        * References
    * Length requirement:
      * No minimum for 196, 296, 396, or 499 students
      * 4000 word count for 496 students
  * **496 Posters**
    * Follow guidelines in email sent from the EE assistant
    * Refer to posters from previous years in the Google Drive
    * Can email to Dr. Kuh and the leadership team for review
      * Please send posters by **Tuesday, April 26**
    * Please be sure to print posters EARLY
      * Can print in POST computer lab
      * Ask lab monitor for help with printing posters
  * **CTAHR/CoE Symposium**
    * Friday, April 8, 3:00 - 5:30 pm
    * Agricultural Science Building
    * Will be presenting two posters:
      * Open Platform for Weather Data Aggregation and Collaboration
      * Modular, Low-Cost Environmental Sensor Networks
    * Come support our lab and check out other projects in the department!
  * **Parts Order**
    * Next parts order due **Friday, April 8, at 11:59 pm**
      * Last parts order for this semester
      * Will send out email with request spreadsheet
  * **Career/Professional Workshop**
    * Friday, April 15, at 4:30 pm
    * Location: TBA
    * Mainly for freshmen and sophomore but juniors and seniors are welcome to
      * Need students to talk about their experiences
    * Informal discussion and Q&A about:
      * What working in industry is like,
      * How to get an internship/job
      * Interviews
      * And much more!
    * Will get dinner after

===== Deadlines =====
  * Week of 4/15/2016: 296 weatherbox projects due 
    * Will start shadowing teams the following week
  * **Get ahead on work and account for debug time and unforeseen setbacks**

===== CDR Presentation Notes =====
==== Overall Presentation Notes ====
  * Avoid putting blocks of code on your slides
    * Convert the code into an algorithm that is more readable

==== Instrumentation ====
  * Alligator clips from 
  * Send data values as strings and convert on computer
    * Try sending data as bytes instead of a string
  * Issues with matplotlib
    * Wanted to plot data in real time but are having issues with it
    * Can talk to Christie and Ryan about this
  * Behind by two weeks
    * Need to allocate more time for the GUI

==== Wind Sensor ====
  * Finished implementing Teensy with 4 microphones on breadboard
  * Will research how to find sampling rate
    * Teensy samples about 4 times faster than Arduino
    * Flip pin at end of sample to get a square wave
      * Can compare square waves for sample size
  * Suggest not using Cortex M4 chip
    * Just use Teensy since only a month left
    * Will complicate things to use just the microcontroller on the Teensy
  * Order new wind sensor

==== Apple Design Team ====
  * Five boards ready
  * Temperature sensor pins are CORRECT on the datasheet
  * Housing
    * Consider for different roofs
  * Will go over solar irradiance data with Firmware
  * Can configure XBees remotely
    * Cannot program Arduino remotely
  * BMP085 library can be used with the BMP180

==== Dragonfruit Design Team ====
  * Four boards ready

==== Cranberry Design Team ====
  * Three boards ready
  * Brandon trying to make their own housing
    * Thinking of editing Brianne's design

==== Firmware Team ====
  * Fixing values
    * Voltage divider
    * Needed to read data sheets for scaling factors for ADCs
  * How values were confirmed
    * Confirmed values with old Apple values
    * Pressure about 101 kPa
    * Humidity about the same for all four boards
    * Varied solar irradiance with outdoor light in the room

==== Forecasting ====
  * Compare to LMS
  * Include graphs and block diagrams to make it easier to understand algorithms

==== Verification ====
  * Will send out board next week
    * Meeting with Garrett at beginning of next week for final design

==== XBee Team ====
  * For rain, test with rain in between the two XBees
    * Note temperature and humidity at the time
  * Testing with the antenna wet as if it were raining
  * 64000 nodes max on a network


==== 196/296 Presentations ====
  * Do not put your full schematic on slides
    * Not readable- use a block diagram instead
  * Project Badger
    * Testing validity of smart outlet data readings
  * Team Asteroid
    * About a week behind
  * Team Nova
    * Housing took 8 hours on lowest resolution
      * Can ask Brandon for help
  * Team Quasar
    * Scheduled to finish on time
  * Team Black Hole
    * XBee antenna should be hanging off the board
    * Not using current sensor
    * Do pressure in kPa
    * Warning that XBee may take a while
  * Team Rocket
    * Rx and Tx need to be switched
      * Rx and Tx are in reference to the part
      * Need to be switched from Xbee to Arduino