Frances’ Status Report for 11/15

This week, I spend a lot of time figuring out how to make the hardware wireless. We had previously attempted to communication with the Arduino Nano through CMU’s Device WiFi, however this had proven to be especially complicated, since it was difficult to connect the computer to CMU-Device, and both the computer and the microcontroller needed to be on the same network in order to communicate.
As a result, we have successfully implemented a WiFi communication using hotspot, where both the devices are connected to the hotspot. This was a very critical step in our project, and I verified the correct communication by powering the microcontroller with a different power source.