{"id":134,"date":"2024-03-24T01:19:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T01:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/?p=134"},"modified":"2024-03-24T01:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T01:23:27","slug":"carsons-status-report-for-march-23rd-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/2024\/03\/24\/carsons-status-report-for-march-23rd-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson&#8217;s Status Report for March 23rd, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Progress<\/h1>\n<p>This week, we assembled and tested our prototype PCB. I did most of the testing to confirm that the new board worked, including determining how to use a Raspberry Pi debug probe to flash code to the new board as well as rewriting the code to work with the changed pin assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Some notable things I discovered while testing included the SD card connector being inconveniently backwards, the display pins being inverted (which we fixed by rotating the display around), and there was a noticeably longer time to get a GPS fix than there was using the breakout.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-143\" src=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2024\/03\/IMG20240321143649-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2024\/03\/IMG20240321143649-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2024\/03\/IMG20240321143649-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2024\/03\/IMG20240321143649-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Pacing<\/h1>\n<p>The fact that the PCB functions is very good news; though this deviated from the original plan we now can start measuring energy consumption and checking for the accuracy of the GPS fix. I still have not gotten energy harvesting measurements, but now that we have a more concrete setup it should be easier.<\/p>\n<h1>Planning<\/h1>\n<p>Next week, I will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally determine the energy harvesting scheme we will use<\/li>\n<li>Start design of the final PCB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress This week, we assembled and tested our prototype PCB. I did most of the testing to confirm that the new board worked, including determining how to use a Raspberry Pi debug probe to flash code to the new board as well as rewriting the code to work with the changed pin assignments. Some notable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/2024\/03\/24\/carsons-status-report-for-march-23rd-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carson&#8217;s Status Report for March 23rd, 2024&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s24-teamb8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}