Attended:Isaiah, Kayla, Rebecca

• Board schematic
  • Power for the board
    • Solar charging chip and solar panel
  • Debugging LEDs
  • Uploading fix
• Bread board problems
  • Xbee was no longer getting 3.3V
  • Added a resistor to Vin of the xbee
  • Now getting around 3.3V

Attended:Isaiah, Kayla, Rebecca

Actions:

• Replaced both capacitors (both to 10 μF)
• Changed resistor added last meeting from 1 kΩ to 10 kΩ to receive steady voltage of 3.33 V.
• Started from square one, and ran through a bunch of different test
  • Tested by hooking up bare arduino to a power supply. Both 5V into the 3.3V reg and just 3.3V to the whole circuit
  • Made sure xbees were configured correctly
  • Sent simple test packets between the 3 xbees using XCTU
  • Tested the relay using an arduino instead of our bare arduino
  • After seeing the relay work using 2 arduinos, we went back to using one arduino to send and the bare arduino to relay

Current Concerns:

• Found that 1 and 3 cannot communicate with each other
• Encountered two defective arduino boards
• Must add additional LEDs for debugging
• Find solution to rid of hardcoding address

Outcomes:

• Relay is now working properly
• Not quite sure what fixed it
  • Possible reasons:
    • Xbee wasn't getting enough power
    • Somewhere in the code got messed up

Contributing authors:

Created by kamano on 2017/09/07 00:37.