• 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

• 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

• Avoid putting blocks of code on your slides
  • Convert the code into an algorithm that is more readable

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Four boards ready

• Three boards ready
• Brandon trying to make their own housing
  • Thinking of editing Brianne's design

• 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

• Compare to LMS
• Include graphs and block diagrams to make it easier to understand algorithms

• Will send out board next week
  • Meeting with Garrett at beginning of next week for final design

• 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

• 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

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