Attended: Andy, Kenny, Zach, Sean, Grant, Jessie, Ryan, Christie

• Low battery life: 3.7 V 6600 mAh
• No On/Off button and hard to access to turn off box
• Difficult to debug
  • No LEDs
  • No serial output
  • Hard to program
  • Disassemble
• Assembly
  • Too much hot glue
  • Housing design

• Housing
  • Use 3D printer to print what we want
  • Reinforce 3D printed housing with fiber glass
  • Pipe idea
    • Would need a big PVC pipe for outdoors
    • Have divider for sensors
      • One side for sensors
      • Other side for main board, XBEE, and battery
      • Have bus to connect two sides
• Breakout board
  • Put LEDs and ports (UART, ground, power)
    • TX
    • RX
    • Ground
    • 3.3V
    • Reset button- soft
    • SPI- program
  • Can unplug board when done testing, debugging, and programming
• Problem with SD card

• Single board
  • Charging chip, main processor, XBEE on same board
• Single chip- QFN
• No SD card
• Battery more than double
• Solar panel upgrade
• Wireless programming
• Lowering clock to 8 MHz

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Created by cobatake on 2015/09/29 06:27.