====== Blueberry Design Meeting- August 28, 2014 ======
**Attended: Andy, Kenny, Zach, Sean, Grant, Jessie, Ryan, Christie**

=====Apple- Negatives:=====
  * Low battery life: 3.7 V 6600 mAh
  * No On/Off button and hard to access to turn off box
  * Difficult to debug
    * No LEDs
    * No serial output
    * Hard to program
    * Disassemble
  * Assembly
    * Too much hot glue
    * Housing design

=====Improvement:=====
  * Housing
    * Use 3D printer to print what we want
    * Reinforce 3D printed housing with fiber glass
    * Pipe idea
      * Would need a big PVC pipe for outdoors
      * Have divider for sensors
        * One side for sensors
        * Other side for main board, XBEE, and battery
        * Have bus to connect two sides
  * Breakout board
    * Put LEDs and ports (UART, ground, power)
      * TX
      * RX
      * Ground
      * 3.3V
      * Reset button- soft
      * SPI- program
    * Can unplug board when done testing, debugging, and programming
  * Problem with SD card

=====Cranberry:=====
  * Single board
    * Charging chip, main processor, XBEE on same board
  * Single chip- QFN
  * No SD card
  * Battery more than double
  * Solar panel upgrade
  * Wireless programming
  * Lowering clock to 8 MHz