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
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Created by cobatake on 2016/04/02 20:05.