This week, I continued to work on the GPS transponder with Kevin and debugged the hardware connections. We started by just connecting it on the RPi, but then had some small issues connecting it onto the Notecarrier. I completed the charging portion of our project which connects our product to the car reliably. I worked on the final presentation and helped conduct user tests. We are all on schedule and we hope to finish all testing and demo next week.
Some new tools that I got familiar with was Google Firebase, Google Cloud Run Functions, Notecard, RPi, and GPS transponders. Some new knowledge that I have learned is how to write cloud systems and debug problems in our cloud backend. This mainly includes writing the Cloud Functions, but I also learned how to reset the triggers for these functions. This was especially important when we accidently deleted our database causing our functions to be pointing at a invalid DB instance. The learning strategy that I learned is how to properly plan without needing everything laid out. This allowed me to move fast while ensuring that the different parts of our project worked.