Hardware Meeting - February 11, 2015
Attended: Andy, Zach, Conrad, Jon, Alex, Christie
Enclosure
- Need someone to take on this task
Goals
- Finish Cranberry and deploy weatherbox by spring break
- Deploy 5 boxes by end of semester
Parts
- Ordering parts goes through Liane
- Funding from Dr. Kuh
Reflow Oven
- Will be using Garmire’s reflow oven
- Infrared oven
Weatherbox
- Can finish box board by next week
- Jon can take parts to Garmire’s lab and use reflow oven to solder parts
- 2 QFNs, capacitors, and resistors
- Need to come up with Gantt chart by next week’s meeting
- At least until spring break
- Test PCBs need to be made
- Conrad and Jon will work on this
Tree Monitor
- Alex will be working on this problem
- Will work on PCB outline tomorrow, 2/12
- Kenny thinking of using Fritzing instead of Eagle
Review of Weatherbox boards
- I/O board (main board)
- UART- hardware and software line
- XBEE
- Microprocessor- ATMEGA
- Solar charger
- Everything runs on 3.3V
- Standard Bus line
- ISP
- Reset
- Debugging
- Sensor board
- Solar irradiance
- Analog to digital using 16 bit ADC
- I2C
Weekly Work Schedule
- Conrad and Jon will come in on Mondays
Authors
Contributing authors:
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