This week, I practiced presenting our proposal presentation earlier in the week, and continued to do more research on the specific types of sensors and equipment that we would need to physically build the greenhouse system. Using the information I gathered on these topics, I started to create the block diagram for the hardware side of the greenhouse. Drawing the diagram helped me break down the project into smaller parts, and helped me think about the small details that I hadn’t noticed before.
Also, taking into account the feedback that we received from our status reports that we submitted last week, I created a rough shopping list of the parts that we would need to build the greenhouse (excluding the camera, since Sarah is in charge of them). There definitely needs to be more work done on the shopping list, since I need to contact the ECE lab to see if I can borrow some parts, and I realized there are some parts that I do not know if I need them until I start building the greenhouse.
Overall, I think I am on schedule. Next week, I hope to complete the shopping list by communicating with the TA and the ECE lab technician, and start submitting purchase request forms. Also, I would like to finalize my block diagram and integrate it with the software side of the project, and work on other parts of the design review presentation slides.