Sailing pirates

Team page for Deploying IT Infrastructure Solutions.

Team Members

Kristjan Tõnismäe, The Estonian Information Technology College
Konstantinos Verigos, Technological Educational Institute of Crete
Stefanos Athanasiadis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete
Tommi Potapoff, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
Jesse Koski, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
Mikko Heikkuri, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences

Goal

Work out good working prototype or final product.
Build up product with good graphical user interface.
Create embedded system with two parts:

2. Using Marine microcontroller and Marine sensor system.

Embedded system can save history data and hold it.
This embedded system can show all information what sensors can give.
It have to be simple and easy to use.
It has physical buttons what you can use to start and stop saving data, to turn device on and off.

Activity

Activity chart

Monday - 25.03.13

Things what we did that day:

Listening some lectures.
Programming sumorobots and took a part from the sumorobots contest.
Divided into groups and we chose our project.

Tuesday - 26.03.13

Things what we did that day:

Made some research for hardware, software and tried to got a cleaner view of our project.
We met sailing boat in our school, got inspiration, made some brainstorming, collecting ideas.

Problems what we faced:

We tried to find those problems what we will starting to face.

Things what we plan to do:

Collect more information about our project.
Ask some questions, what we have made for clients.

Wednesday - 27.03.13

Things what we did that day:

We met our mentor Andres Käver and other project owner Linnar Viik, we cleared up our project.
Everybody got their part what to do:

Problems what we faced:

What kind of devices can connect to system?

Dual Digital Display and through NMEA there will be connected tablet.

Questions and answers from client:

Things what we plan to do:

First thing

Thursday - 28.03.13

Things what we did that day:

Software (Kostas and Jesse)

Arduino (Stefanos and Kristjan)

Hardware (Tommi and Mikko)

Teamwork

Friday - 29.03.13

Things what we did that day:

Built a level shifter.

Built hardware connections between sensors and level sifter.

Improved user interface by changing the size and colors of some parts (eg. buoy). Uploaded the image in the tablet and testing it outside in the environment.

Problems what we faced:

In the software Arduino part a problem raised at the NMEA/TinyGPS library, because the library does not include ready functions for extracting wind information

take this responsibility and this task will be completed using Java programming language.

Things what we plan to do:

Fix our main problem to get information from arduino controller.

Monday - 01.04.13

Things what we did that day:

On the hardware section some faults were repaired. We changed the baud rate of the information extraction, and by that action the laptop device that was

connected to the server was able to identify the NMEA protocol strings from the server. Also with an Oscilloscope we checked that the outcome signal of the system is correct.

A prototype program was created that a tablet controls the led of the arduino controller with a tap of a button.

Problems what we faced:

Faults in hardware connections, faults with the level shifter.
Just problems with java developing, can't say in more details.

Things what we plan to do:

Finalizing the hardware setup.
Continuing the development of android and arduino software.

Tuesday - 02.04.13

Things what we did that day:
The hardware part is 100% cmpleted and fully functional.

Problems what we faced:

Things what we plan to do:

Results

Summary of what we did and solution what we developed

Final documentation

Analysis

Solution