SCEL Weekly Meeting - April 2, 2015

Attended: Dr. Kuh, Andy, Kenny, Zach, Conrad, Michele, Keoni, Jeremy, Christie

Reminders and updates
Individual updates for this week
Presentation: Zach
Goals for the Week
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Deadline to put Cranberry on Holmes Hall roof was March 19!
- Tested boards over spring break
- Will take longer to complete
- Still aiming for end of semester goal: deploy 5 boxes
- Back up plan
  - Use apple instead of cranberry
REIScess
- Was cancelled this past weekend
- Still planning on hiking at Kuliouou Ridge
- Christie will send out a doodle later to see when is best to go hiking
Parts order
- Parts for Adafruit, Digikey, and Amazon came in this past week
- Still waiting on parts from Newark and Dell
Parts request
- Christie will create a document for the last parts request for this semester
- Still need to determine a due date
- Spreadsheet will be saved in dropbox
  - Laboratory > Request Items List > 2015-4-14
  - Copy “Requests Item r0.xlsx” file
  - Enter in information for items requesting
  - Save as “Requests Items r0 initials.xlsx” (i.e. “Requests Items r0 CO.xlsx”)
Professional fees
- Requested new equipment for our lab on Tuesday
- Weather sensors, power supply, and oscilloscope
CTAHR Symposium
- Poster presentation will be held on April 10, Friday, in the Agricultural Science Building
  - Set up from 11 am to 1 pm
  - Presentation from 3 pm to 5:30 pm
- Students who received REU funding will present
  - Conrad, Zach, Christie, Kenny, and Ryan
- Began working on posters over the break
- Christie will send out schedule to students presenting
CoE Banquet
- Submitted list of attending students yesterday to Jean
- Andy, Zach, Conrad, and Christie
- Will send out more details as I receive them
TechConnect Conference
- Kenny will be attending
- Presentation time: June 16, Tuesday, at 4:00 pm
- Authors on paper: Andy, Kenny, Zach, Conrad, Sean, Ryan, Christie
- Need to submit paper by April 11
- Set up GoogleDoc to start writing paper
- Make a draft by April 5
Manoa Experience
- Show lab on April 11
- Kenny, Zach, and Christie will be free to show lab

Kenny
- Working with Alex for design for tree project
- Working on server stuff
Zach
- Finished 496 paper
- Helped with box over the break
- Worked on testing module
- Worked on presentation
Christie
- Helped test Cranberry box over the break
- Worked on CTAHR poster
- Finished parts order
- Will help Andy with data from Apple
Ryan
Michele
- Going to help Andy with wind sensor
Conrad
- Will work on Cranberry
- Help with testing
Alex
- Going to send PCB out for printing
Jon
- Solder charging chips
Andy
- Tested Cranberry with Christie
  - Found bugs and debugged
- Worked on thesis
  - Finished first draft of chapter 3- wind sensor
  - Almost done with chapter 2- sensor module
  - Next week will work on chapter 1- literature
Daisy
- On trip
Keoni
- Will be working on 296 project
  - Make prototype and test by next week
Jeremy
- Will help Andy with wind sensor
Makiko