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All Hands Meeting- April 2, 2016
Reminders
Deadlines
CDR Presentation Notes
Overall Presentation Notes
Instrumentation
Wind Sensor
Apple Design Team
Dragonfruit Design Team
Cranberry Design Team
Firmware Team
Forecasting
Verification
XBee Team
196/296 Presentations
Authors
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
Authors
Contributing authors:
cobatake
Created by
cobatake
on 2016/04/02 20:05.