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[Alisha] Status Update 10.26.19

[Alisha] Status Update 10.26.19

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[UI] I’ve spent the week taking the app from the baseline wireframe design to a semi-functional prototype. Obviously right now it’s running on dummy data, but at least we have a functional design with our primary MVP component: a “live” map of available seating. The React Native/Firebase stack hasn’t been an entirely seamless process, so debugging that took up a decent amount of time. The next step is to integrate login functionality to the app which will be an interesting…

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[Charlotte] Status Update 10.26.2019

[Charlotte] Status Update 10.26.2019

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? I have spent time this week researching and working on get Rpis to communicate over wifi with TCP connections.  I am currently in California for over a week, so not being in lab has made working on the project a little more difficult.  However, I traveled with 2 Rpis, the necessary power supplies, the pi cap, and a few other this, which is what has made it possible to accomplish…

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[Charlotte] Status Update 10.19.19

[Charlotte] Status Update 10.19.19

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? We finished up our Design doc this past Monday because we had a mixup about the deadline of the design doc.  I finally successfully got the Rpi to connect to wifi.  This allowed me to download and install the software to code the Pi Cap.  After following those steps I tested the Pi Cap in lab.  You can adjust the sensitivity of the conductive tabs so that they work more…

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[Charlotte] Status Update 10.12.19

[Charlotte] Status Update 10.12.19

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? This week I spent lots time attempting to get the Raspberry Pi connected to wifi.  This unfortunately is taking a lot longer than initial anticipated.  I spent countless hours in lab researching how to connect the Rpi to wifi as well as communicating with Shreyas (our TA) and getting suggestions from him.  These attempts included trying to connect to every network the Rpi recognized, trying to connect to a hotspot…

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[Alisha] Status Update 10.12.19

[Alisha] Status Update 10.12.19

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[Team] A little bit behind schedule this week as our design isn’t 100% finalized, but we’ll be working hard to catch up over the next week. Spent the front half of the week prepping our design review presentation. Ended up with botched slides due to some miscommunication, but it worked out fairly well in the end. We’ll be sure to amp up the detail for our design specs and metrics in our design doc (due tomorrow!), which has taken up…

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[Charlotte] Status Update 10.5.2019

[Charlotte] Status Update 10.5.2019

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What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? This week I put in time testing sensors with Alisha.  I worked on the slides for the presentation and created a flow diagram of what our sensor hub would look like (see image below).  We tested a PIR sensor and worked towards testing an ultrasonic sensor.  Much time went into setting up our RaspberryPi. We actually realize that one of the RaspberryPis that we checkout from the hub does not…

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[Alisha] Status Update 10.5.19

[Alisha] Status Update 10.5.19

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Spent the week getting familiar with Raspberry Pi, testing sensors, getting power estimates, and preparing for our design review presentation. The capacitive proximity sensors just arrived, so we’ll be jumping into that early next week. Progress was a little slow for me this week with other commitments, but I’m still on schedule and getting closer to finalizing an overall design. [Sensors] Had some trouble getting set up with RPi for the first time, so a lot of time was sucked…

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Status Update 9.28.19

Status Update 9.28.19

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We’re on schedule and getting into the swing of testing various sensors for their effectiveness within the requirements of our project. Currently focusing on narrowing down our sensor selection after having collected more data from Hunt and having mapped out space in the D-Level cubicles to mimic the Hunt carrel measurements. [Alisha] This week we worked in tandem to improve our requirements and begin testing sensors. We checked out Raspberry Pis, ultrasonic sensors, a passive infrared (PIR) sensor, and a…

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