Week 12

     This week, we continued working on our poster (the draft was due Wednesday). This involved adding more pictures of relevant topics and including some text elaborating on some of the topics. One of the things that we tried to keep in mind while creating the poster was that Dr. Gordon (our adviser) wanted very little text. Therefore, we tried to keep the explanations short and succinct, with the idea that more detail could be given to interested parties when we present the poster and our project. This also included rearranging the poster so that it was a bit more chronological and aesthetically pleasing. The draft submitted to Dr. Gordon can be seen below.

This is the draft of the poster that was submitted to Dr. Gordon.

     We also spent some time this week trying to get the Arduino to run off of battery power. Currently, our system needs to be plugged into a laptop via USB to run. However, Arduinos are intended to be used un-tethered as well, and can store code in their internal memory. We bought a 9V battery to power the Arduino. However, we ran into some issues where the code would not run once the Arduino had been unplugged from the computer. We consulted a few people who have more experience using Arduinos, and their opinions were that something might be wrong with our board. We will look into the problem, and possibly use another Arduino board for the time being.