During our first week as a group, we read through the final report from last semester and established team roles. We also had our first meeting with the project partner, Dr. Rippel, in which we established our goals for the semester and the acceptance criteria. We learned that his main priority is to get at least one of the sensors working, preferably the weight sensors.
We researched the materials that the team from last semester used, such as the ESP32 microcontroller and the Raspberry Pi. We figured out what each port was for in the ESP32 and were able to connect the Raspberry Pi to a laptop. However, the microprocessor shorted out shortly after, so we put in a procurement request for a new one. We downloaded the proper libraries and drivers to get the ESP32 connected to the Arduino IDE, and started trying to get a DHT22 temperature and humidity sensor to work with it. We got the hardware connected for it, and are currently working on getting the code to run.
We also started creating the user interface for the website that will display the information for the sensors using React.js and Node.js. We used Figma to make a wireframe of the homepage that will show all the information, and are currently halfway done with coding it.
