Communication Platform: Messenger

 

Sunday, January 12th, 2020 → Monday, January 13th, 2020:

• Team discussion over messenger

  • Planning meeting for Monday Jan. 13th

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Monday, January 13th, 2020:

• Team meeting

  • Members required: Sharon, Michelle, Cham, Jared

  • Members present: Sharon, Michelle, Cham, Jared

• Topics discussed

  • Finalizing preliminary list of ideas

  • Finalizing need statement

  • Finalizing list of criteria

  • Addressing any concerns about end user and who target market should be

  • Going over sensors and what each one can do and how they could be used

  • Prep for Design Studio on Wednesday

 

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020:

• Team discussion over messenger

  •  Discussing final concept to be picked for this portion of the project

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Sunday, January 26th, 2020 → Tuesday, January 28th, 2020:

• Team discussion over messenger

  • Planning a time to meet during the week

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Tuesday, January 28th, 2020:

• Team meeting

  • Members required: Sharon, Michelle, Cham, Jared

  • Members present: Sharon, Michelle, Cham, Jared

• Topics addressed

  • Discussed how we want the prototype to look

  • Outlined the model and all the components required

  • Built a basic prototype out of materials found in the design studio

  • Planned out how we want to handle the design review and who will have what roles, and who wants to talk

  • Made list of questions to ask during design review

 

Saturday, February 1st, 2020:

• Computing team discussion over messenger

  • Planning a meeting time and place to code

 

Saturday, February 1st, 2020:

• Computing team meeting

  • Members required: Sharon, Jared

  • Members present: Sharon, Jared

• Topics covered

  • Continued to chip away at the code, getting towards completion

  • Completed most of the main function of the code, just left to work out the side functions

 

Sunday, February 2nd, 2020:

• Computing team discussion

  • Planning which lab session to attend

 

Monday, February 3rd, 2020:

• Computing team meeting

  • Members required: Sharon, Jared

  • Members present: Sharon, Jared

• Topics covered

  • Completed the base of the code, just left to work out bugs, make more user friendly and critique the code

  • Constructed breadboard fully and made sure all buttons were connected fully

  • Code is in one big main function, still have to split it up into separate parts and separate functions

 

Thursday, February 6th, 2020:

• Computing team discussion

  • Planning when to meet to fully finish the code

  • Needed to split code up into separate functions 

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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020:

• Computing team meeting

  • Members required: Sharon, Jared

  • Members present: Sharon, Jared

• Topics covered

  • Finishing up the code

  • Building multiple functions of the code

  • Ensuring the code would still run and all the functions are being called

  • Fixed multiple little errors that were causing crashes or were affecting the usability of the code

  • Fixed audio and remade audio files to fit the project better

  • Added lights to the breadboard as another user experience and another output

  • Ensured breadboard still worked and all LED and buttons were correctly hooked up 

 

Wednesday, February 12th, 2020 → Thursday, February 13th, 2020:

• Computing team discussion

  • Planning when to meet to touch up the code and ensure no issues

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Wednesday, February 12th, 2020:

• Computing team meeting

  • Members required: Sharon, Jared

  • Members present: Sharon, Jared

• Topics covered

  • Touching up code

  • Ensuring it runs 100% of the time

  • Ensuring no crashes

  • Accounting for any errors and making code as easy to use as possible

  • Make sure breadboard and components of it are working fully

 

Thursday, February 13th, 2020:

• Computing team meeting

  • Members required: Sharon, Jared

  • Members present: Sharon, Jared

• Topics covered

  • Fully done all aspects of the code

  • Clean up breadboard to make more user friendly

  • Have others test our program, code and use the device to ensure it works and others are able to understand it

Thursday, February 6th, 2020 → Thursday, February 13th, 2020:

• Team discussion over messenger

  • Talking about how each of the teams (computing / modelling) are doing and how close they are to being finished

  • Asking any questions or concerns any team member has about any part of the project

  • Planning a video chat meeting for Thursday Feb. 13th

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 Thursday, February 13th, 2020:

• Team meeting with video chat

  • Members required: Sharon, Michelle, Cham, Jared

  • Members present: Sharon, Michelle, Cham(on videochat), Jared

• Topics discussed

  • Each team was presenting their aspect to the other, ie. computing presented to modelling and vice versa

  • Teaching each other about each aspect of the project to ensure everyone knew how to present whatever they were asked  

  • Practice full presentation and go over all the key points we need to mention and any other aspects that were important

  • Prepare for presentation

  • Address any questions each group may have about the others part of the project

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 Thursday, February 13th, 2020 → Friday, February 14th, 2020:

• Team discussion over messenger

  • Planning our final meeting before the presentation on Friday

 

Thursday, February 20th, 2020:

• Team discussion over messenger

  • Planning how and when we want to work on the written technical report

  • Outlining how we want to do each part of the final deliverables

  • Deciding when each component should be done

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Friday, February 21st, 2020 → Sunday, February 23rd, 2020:

• Team discussion over messenger

  • Discussing written technical report

  • Addressing any questions or concerns