It's hard to believe that I'm already at the end of my third week here. The whole team has managed to keep very busy this week. Right now I'm working on integrating an SD card reader with an arduino for the river bed project. This has proven to be more difficult than I anticipated, mainly because I had to wire up SD card reader to the arduino myself, something I have very little experience with. I've managed to get it mostly set up, I'm just waiting for the rest of the team to verify that what I did is correct so we don't fry the thing when we power it up.
We hope to use the SD card to store data while we are testing, but ultimately the goal will be to just transmit the data as soon as its collected. This lead to the other part of the river bed project that is being worked on right now. My other two colleagues are building the radios we are hoping to use with our prototype to transmit data. We've also been busy learning how to use git for version control and searching for academic papers to support our research with.
The home automation project, that the other team is working on, has been making good progress as well. They have been learning to develop windows apps that use Cortana for voice control. Right now they have a calculator app that can be controlled with your voice through Cortana. Its pretty cool. Now that they're more familiar with windows mobile apps and Cortana I believe they will start working on a prototype home automation app. It will be interesting to see where they go next.
Week 3 has been productive for both teams, can't wait to get even more done next week! Roll Tide!
We hope to use the SD card to store data while we are testing, but ultimately the goal will be to just transmit the data as soon as its collected. This lead to the other part of the river bed project that is being worked on right now. My other two colleagues are building the radios we are hoping to use with our prototype to transmit data. We've also been busy learning how to use git for version control and searching for academic papers to support our research with.
The home automation project, that the other team is working on, has been making good progress as well. They have been learning to develop windows apps that use Cortana for voice control. Right now they have a calculator app that can be controlled with your voice through Cortana. Its pretty cool. Now that they're more familiar with windows mobile apps and Cortana I believe they will start working on a prototype home automation app. It will be interesting to see where they go next.
Week 3 has been productive for both teams, can't wait to get even more done next week! Roll Tide!