We were able to meet with Kenneth this week Monday, February 17th, he was very helpful. He taught us what's the weird pinouts on our ATMEGA 1284P. From this, we were able to find the GitHub with the corresponding pinouts, which matches the pinout we found and he was able to help us bootload the chip as the standard layout which is easier to read since it will start off with pin 0 instead of pin 9. Also, we were able to figure out the XBee issue, where you can fix it from a software perspective, by assigned it in the code. We also went over the potential issue with the solar charging components of the board because we weren't sure if is working properly at all, which we found out there are some misnames for it. Today, we pretty much fix the bare Guava with the ATMEGA 1284P bootloader with the standard layout, and we were able to see the outputs on the Arduino IDE.

Members: Diwen, Riley, Max

Time: 3:30PM - 5:30PM

Today, we focused on connect the XBee to the standard layout and try to find out the error with the solar charging components. For XBee communication, the old TX0 and RX1 do not work anymore, we couldn't make it work, but we noticed that the REV C works, so we just going to end the bare Guava since everything else is working now and XBee problem will be fixed from the code we have right now. For the solar charging components, all we did was to check all the traces and do a voltage test to see if there's any current going through, which we found out it didn't, we were able to fix the basic schematic by following the schematic from the Adafruit's solar charging circuit.

Members: Diwen, Riley, Max

Time: 1:30PM - 4:30PM

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Created by dlin on 2020/03/05 04:02.