Feb 4, 2015

 Agenda

Baja II Senior Design Meeting
Date: 2/4/2015
Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Location: Stinson Remick 207
Meeting Leader: Maggie McGonigle      
Minutes: Anthony Ngyuen
Attendees: Sam Flores, Eric Jesse, Maggie McGonigle, Anthony Ngyuen, Prof. Mike Schafer
 

1. Discuss Individual Assignments and Current Status
   1. Memory Storage
   2. LCD Touch Screen
   3. GPS
   4. Hall Effect Sensors & Temperature Sensors
2. Discuss Microcontroller
3. Discuss and Assign Action Items
   1. Reminder of deadlines (next: February 16^th)

 Minutes

Baja II Senior Design Meeting Minutes
Date: February 4, 2015
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Location:  Stinson Remick 207
Meeting Leader: Maggie McGonigle
Minutes: Anthony Nguyen
Attendees: Sam Flores, Anthony Nguyen, Prof. Mike Schafer, Eric Jesse, Maggie McGonigle

 Memory storage

• Easier to use FTDI parts
• SPI
  • Test the status bits or interrupt flag to tell when reading and writing is done
  • The interrupt flag can be tested without enabling the bit
  • Enabling the bit will cause an interrupt to occur
  • Use SPI decode mode to see what is happening

Touch Screen

• Software needs to recognize when button is pressed
• There is a document online that describes the commands given to the display
• Rather than decode C++, try putting things on the display and see if the board can be written to
• Serial version looks harder to write to the screen and will need to send definitions over seriallink
• It is easier to define an object and then send serial commands where to display
• Serial Version could be better

GPS

• Due to weather, unable to work on GPS
• Significant hours planned to work on this week
• Same objectives and action items as last week

Hall Effect sensors

• T1CK is input to Timer1
• Easier to count every second rather than using interrupts
• Can’t use same timer for counting and timing
• Need to use TimerA to count external event
• T1CON used in  TimerA

Microcontrollers:

• Notes are on Sakai but are a work in progress

Action Items:

• Sam – Figure out SPI
• Eric – Figure out Genie and how to program with it
• Anthony – Test temperature code and figure out TimerA
• Maggie – Same as last week

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