Hacking Weekend (1)

Plan

Day 1

  • Make circuits
  • Write Arduino code
    • nRF working
    • readings
  • Hook up camera to Pi
  • Setup laptop as server

Day 2

  • Design of look - wireframing
  • Chat about logo
  • Finish arduino stuff
  • OpenCV
  • Web app

AFTERMATH

Day 1

  • Circuit making was postponed as we couldn’t locate the sensors, hopefully we’ll get to it on Day 2.
  • Arduino code writiten:
    • We have a network of 3 Arduino nodes tested talking to each other 🙂
    • Same as for point one above 🙂 Couldn’t get the sensors so we’ll hopefully get to it on Day 2.
    • A endeavour into getting the Ethernet was also made.
  • The raspberry camera was setup and tested, with the installation of the environment to make use of the python library underway.
  • A laptop setup with base xubuntu with added ssh and apache2 packages is ready for setting up the rest of the server.

Day 2

  • Mick and John made it along for day two so it was nearly all hands on deck (Greg was at the Paris Maker Faire)
  • The first item on the list was a discussion about our Github
    • We’ve decided to break the whole project into separate repositories for each discrete module
    • We can then import each repository into the Dublin Maker repository as submodules
  • Code for Arduino was improved to add profiles for the different types of sensor/devices
    • this is still getting tidied up and then will go into the Github
    • Victor got cracking on the research for the power strip power measurement
  • Colin made some more headway with the Pi camera
  • John set up our AWS server with node and web stuff so that we can use it as our backend
  • Mick did a really nice sketch-up for the web frontend

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