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Team Apple Minutes September 22, 2015
Attended: Kaeo, Tyrin, Tryston, and Kenny
What We Learned
- We are the only group currently using the Arduino
- The red thing is a boost converter that boosts 3.7V to 5V
- Xbee runs at 3.3V (There is a separate regulator to convert that)
- There is a mystery humidity sensor
- There's 2 humidity sensors. One is on the pressure sensor, but they work differently.
- Andy was mistaken about the power?
- It's not the power circuit. It's the fact that the system itself pulls too much juice.
- Battery fully charges around midday.
- The panel never directly powers the circuit. It only powers the charging circuit to charge the battery.
- Pressure and current sensor is connected to the I2C.
- GPS is used for having a lot of weather boxes set up, and you can tell which one/where the one we need is located. (Buoy Example)
- “Drop a box, and be able to find it in a sea of other boxes”
- Kenny is gonna make a core program for us to play around with the hardware we have something to test out.
- By the end of the week, we'll have a program for the arduino that can access all the different sensors and see if they work.
- Start talking to the other teams for advice about the troubles that we are having
- “Hey, were confused about this. Help?”
- By asking questions, this takes care of the overlap among the teams.
- Kennys always willing to help
Reminders
Block Diagram
- Power side and signal side “if it gets too crowded, split it up” -Kenny
- One for power, one for signal