Emma’s Status Reports

This week, I presented the final presentation in class. I practiced the presentation Monday and Tuesday and gave the presentation on Wednesday. I also constructed the walls of the boat, and did all of the additional waterproofing with Abie and Maddie. I went with Abie …

This week, I spent time integrating and testing our system. On Monday, I helped Abie put together our pH sensor, but it ended up not working, so we ordered a temperature sensor instead that would be easier to integrate into our system, and give us …

This week, I worked on soldering the Arduino and the new waterproof motors to a solder board. I tested the motors on the solder board to make sure that the speed adjusts according to the Arduino Cloud dashboard.  I also have been fine tuning the …

This week, I spent time getting ready for the interim demo. Last week, I had finished a majority of my subsection, but I refined some of it to improve functionality, and thought about what there is left to do before the final demonstration. First, I …

This week, I was able to work on motor control and video streaming. Going into the week, the motor control and video stream were not working together. I spent a long time on Monday debugging the socket server to try and allow us to have …

This week, I have spent my time developing the computer interface with Tkinter and the back end connection between the GUI and Raspberry Pi. I am using a socket server to connect the Raspberry Pi and computer, which allows the computer to send commands to …

This week I worked on setting up the motors for the boat. I soldered the wires to the motors, set up the circuit with the motor drivers and the Raspberry Pi, and turned the motors on and off using remote terminal commands. I also spent …

This week I spent time figuring out how to set up the Raspberry Pi. I got the Pi from the ECE inventory but ran into a roadblock when I realized that I needed to upload and customize the OS on the raspberry pi, which required …

This week, I worked on finding the materials needed to build the boat. I found a tutorial video of someone using waterproof sealant, window mesh, and foam board to make the boat. He put the foam board together with the sealant to form the boat …

This week I investigated how to connect a microcontroller to a laptop wirelessly. The requirements for this connection include streaming live video and transmitting a signal from a keyboard press. I discovered that bluetooth would not be suitable for our needs because bluetooth does not …