Karen’s Status Report for 10/08

Unfortunately this week I did not get much done. I thought that the microcontrollers we had ordered had not yet been delivered, and without them I wasn’t able to start assembling the nodes and programming them. I had planned to experiment with sending the nodes into different power modes, but without the boards I couldn’t accomplish this. I did look a bit more into standby mode, and how it might be possible to preserve some of SRAM in that mode. I also started working on the design document with the rest of the team. This week, I plan to start assembling the nodes and programming a node to go into different power modes on a schedule. I also want to get the nodes to take measurements with the temperature sensors. I will likely have to do some work over the break in order to catch up to where I want to be with the project after the break.