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:
- 1. Consumer android application for monitoring and visualizing marine data.
- 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
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:
- Tommi and Mikko - working with hardware development
- Konstantinos - working with software and android development
- Kristjan - working with Wiki page and Java software development
- Jesse - working with user interface development
Problems what we faced:
- What kind of devices can connect to system?
- Answer to question
- All the devices what sailing boat using.
- There are GPS Antenna, Compass Transducer, Triducer, Wind Transmitter, Analog Display,
- 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:
- Setup development tools for android, maps, arduino-android
- Build testing applications for maps and arduino-android
- Ui prototyping and mochup/sketch
- Arduino development tools research
- Arduino development tools setup
- Arduino hardware testing
- Arduino software testing
- Research and order missing parts
- Prototyping circuits
- Connect maggellan gps to nmea
- Update wiki and make activity chart
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
- such as direction and speed. Due to that problem Arduino will not be responsible for analyzing and parsing the NMEA strings in C language, but the tablet will
- 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:
Things what we plan to do:
Results
Summary of what we did and solution what we developed
Final documentation
Analysis
Solution
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