====== PDR Presentations - March 04, 2017 ====== ==== Opening Words ==== * Various Lab Reminders and Procedures * REIScess * First Saturday of Spring Break * Bentos cost $10 * Professional Workshop - Internship/Career Talks * Date not set * Lunch! Shirokiya ==== Dragonfruit ==== * Goals: * Dragonfruit v3 * Block Diagram: Samesame * Problems: Transmitting Issues, Ghost Voltage, Board number 5 unprogrammable * Solutions - Something about binary values to voltage? Shwat. * Desoldered their on board charging chip - soldered on adafruit breakout * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 9:13/2:46 * Tim/Jerry ==== Forecasting ==== * Progress Update * Least Squeares * Recursive Least Squares * Seyyed's example * Tyrin like talk forever * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 11:34/3:47 * Tim/Tim/Dylan/Tim ==== Cranberry ==== * Progress: * Completed both PCB layouts - Power and Signal * Almost finished populating * Problems: * Ran out of parts * Send out PCB * Housing * * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 4:06/3:12 * KevinC/Kyle Chan/KyleChan/Sean/Tyler/Tim ==== Snapdragon ==== * Progress: * Finished PCB Design * Started Housing * Spliced the solar panels together * Yet to finish: * Xbee * Soldering * Housing * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 3:30/1:46 * Creighton/KevinLiu/Jennifer ==== Lotus ==== * I think saying your names is probably a good idea * Block Diagram: * Fast explanation: Protect our stuff? * Problems: * Debugging/ * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 3:15/3:12 * Tyler/Conner/Tim/KevinCho ==== Cosmos ==== * Progress: * Charging Circuit * Almost done with schematic * Plan to start next week on the board layout * Xbee testing * Schematic - Packages difficulty * Schedule: * Parts order * * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 3:08/1:23 ===== Break ===== ==== Software==== * Block Diagram: * Firmware * Dylan's hair is sick * Server * Dashboard * Progress: * Firmware - Implemented Guava, working on naming schemes, working on low power mode, implement a software reset * Server * June helping out with the server * Corrupted partition table * Dashboard * Designed simple weatherbox page for displaying weatherbox data * Tested Dashboard using a postgres virtual machine * Menu and Nav bar on the side * Challenges: * Large sets of data * loading graphs independently * Future: * Dynamic Plots * Real-time data * Deployment to server * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 13:42/7:10 * Isaiah/Kayla/Isaiah/Jerryx3 ==== Wind Sensors ==== * Two mini presentations * Acoustic: * Progress: * Real time processing algorithm * Several indoor tests * Experimented accuracy with different means of linearizing data * Start implementation of direction determination * Problems: * Syntax - silly Scott * Innaccuracies * Ultrasonic: * Progress: * implemented algorithm to sav threshold crossing time * Recieved their ultrasonic transducers and began testing * Problems: * Algorithm is error-prone - going to look to error correcting code * Might need amplifier for output signal or emitter * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 8:25/8:25 * Kenneth/Tyrin/ImaginaryCapictance(jwC)/Timx2/Kyaw/Tyrin/Brieanna/Tim/Emily ==== Apple ==== * 3 different block diagrams * Problems: * Unable to upload code to Apple board * Progress: * Housing - finished printed and ready for deployment * Current Sensor - * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 3:21/1:30 * Tyler ==== Bumblebee ==== * Progress: * XBee communication tests * Shield -> XCTU, XCTU -> Shield, Bare Arduino * Problem: * Send and receive packets using the bare arduino * Wiring problems * Code works * Future: * Computer and Board, Two Boards * Weather tests * PCB * Weatherbox network * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 6:22/4:50 * Jason/Kevin/JohnWilliamCarpenter/Conner/Timx2 ==== Sunflower ==== * Progress: * 160 Tutor * Eagle Tutorial * Began work with the killawatt * Problems: * Parts ordering * Vending machine communication * They don't speak vending machine * Future Steps: * HNEI * Working on the trashcan * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 4:49/4:45 * Tyrin/Jerry/Tyrin/Jerry/jwc/Creighton/Tim/Jennifer/Conner/ ==== Guava ==== * PresentationTime/QuestionTime: 8:36/3:04 * Kyle/Mengyuan/Kenny/Jason ==== Closing Words ==== * Unordered List Item