{"id":175,"date":"2025-03-15T22:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T03:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/?p=175"},"modified":"2025-03-15T22:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T03:08:44","slug":"zaras-status-report-for-03-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/2025\/03\/15\/zaras-status-report-for-03-15-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara\u2019s Status Report for 03\/15\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, I worked on the ethics assignment to evaluate the ethical considerations related to our project. On the technical side, I continued developing the API code and discovered that the initial API we intended to use was no longer actively maintained, though some calls were still functional. Upon further investigation, I found the API\u2019s database but determined that it lacked the necessary data for our project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To address this, I implemented an alternative API to retrieve the required information. However, certain critical details, such as plant watering and lighting schedules, were locked behind a paywall. As a workaround, I explored web scraping as a potential solution and identified several websites with relevant plant data, though they cover a limited selection of houseplants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My progress remains on schedule, and I am now shifting my focus to setting up the heater. By next week, I aim to finalize the heater\u2019s control code and complete the web scraping implementation to gather the necessary plant data.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I worked on the ethics assignment to evaluate the ethical considerations related to our project. On the technical side, I continued developing the API code and discovered that the initial API we intended to use was no longer actively maintained, though some calls were still functional. Upon further investigation, I found the API\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/2025\/03\/15\/zaras-status-report-for-03-15-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zara\u2019s Status Report for 03\/15\/2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s25-teamb3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}