Week 8
Meeting Minutes March 7, 2019
Attended: Mizpah, Sharmaine, Xiao
Updates
- Got back our order forms signed by Dr. Kuh and uploaded it to Laulima
- Conducted range testing: Different floors
- Board suddenly turned off –> battery died
- changed the battery but didn't power on –> checked voltage going out from the voltage regulator and it was 5V!
- changed the voltage regulator to Pololu 3.3V voltage regulator –> not regulating to 3.3V
- accidentally connected it backward –> it got HOT!! [MIZPAH GOT BURNED! ): ]
- Since the battery is only 3.4V, decided to just not use a voltage regulator (temporarily)
- XCTU RANGE TESTING NOTES:
- Local = XBee module is connected to the computer
- Remote = other XBee in the same network (not connected)
- RSSI values (dBm): < -80 dBm = poor
To Do
- Conduct more range testing
- Waiting response from Dr. Sasaki to send Gerber files to Linda
Meeting Minutes March 8, 2019
Attended: Mizpah, Sharmaine, Xiao
Updates
- Continuation of range testing: Line-of-Sight
- Used LM1086 to regulate the input voltage to 3.3V
- Still waiting for order confirmations from Linda
- Mouser: Solar Lithium Ion/Polymer charger, XBee Pro S2C
- DigiKey: SMD Switches/Button, 0805 18 pF capacitors
- Seeed: PCB
To Do
- Continue range testing for not line-of-sight
Authors
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Created by sjavier on 2019/03/08 02:11.