Kristina’s Status Report for 11/08/2025

Hardware Integration & Testing

  • Finished full testbed assembly
  • Started testing on actual hardware setup (pump, fan, heaters, sensors all active)
  • Verified operation of all components under load

SSR Calibration

  • Conducted oscilloscope testing to measure duty cycle vs. output power
  • Derived a linear equation relation PWM duty value to wattage output
  • Updated control code to use calculated duty values

Integration

  • Finished integrating UART communication between Raspberry Pi 5 and Pico
  • Verified that heartbeat and command messages correctly sent and received

Schedule & Progress

  • On schedule
    • Debugging hardware issues and calibration tasks from last week have been resolved
  • System now ready for automated data collection testing

Next Steps

  • Write and test automated data collection routines on the Pi 5
  • Begin extended test runs to log data continuously
  • Start ML code development

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