User:Gulraize1/ENES100/Project 3

Project Preference
1. Wind turbine 2. Design a whole new wind turbine 3. Wind turbine

Problem Statement
''In one or two sentences, describe the project that your group will be working on. Identify what CDIO phase (Conceive, Design, Implement, or Operate) your group will complete in this project cycle.''

Project Plan
Briefly describe your group's plan for the next 4 weeks, including major tasks that will be completed each week.

Week 1 Narrative
''Describe in detail what you did for your team during the week (and weekend). Compare your task (from CDIO discuss page) with what you actually did.''

Week 2 Narrative
This week my task was to get the code for the LCD screen to work. When I first started working with the code in projects before we could not verify if the code was the problem or the screen. Here is the old code for the serial monitor Here is the new code I modified to send the data to an LCD screen

So this week I rewired the breadboard to correspond with the code.

Zach also recorded the video screen not working Here

This signified that the screen was broken because the code worked perfectly fine when the code worked perfectly fine when we sent the data to the serial monitor. The positive side of this week is that I verified that the code was working and the screen itself was the problem. We found a new screen that we could use for our project and in the next week we will solder on pins so we can wire it up and have the wind turbine portable next week.

Week 3 Narrative
My job this week was to finish the wiring for the LCD screen and to help the group in any way I could. To start to week I had to decide if we could get the screen working or not for Thursday when we present at our seminar. The first thing I did this week was to make a new circuit drawing of the wiring for the LCD screen that hopefully is not as messy as the last groups. I used fritzing.org software to make the design, which was extremely helpful and easy to use. I recommend it for any circuit drawings. The circuit is shown below.

After, all the wiring was into place we loaded the code into the screen and lit up but would give us weird boxes and characters. Unfortunately, this was done on Wednesday and we could not fix this problem in time for the presentation. We know the code worked because with the old screen we got the words to display on the screen. So, next week we need to find out what the problem is, and my leading hypothesis is that the screen has a different data sheet than the old one we were using. For the presentation I quickly made the old circuit with the serial monitor just in case anyone there wanted to see the actual testing. I also made a power point with the pictures of all the shrouds, circuits, codes, and anything else we have done for this project. The power point can be seen Here We presented affront of a whole crowd of people and I think it went fairly well and we presented the progress of what we have done in a professional manner.

Week 4 Narrative
My task this week was to look at schematic of the LCD screen and compare it to the old screen, get screen working. So this week I pulled up the schematics for the two screens and compared the outputs for each pin. They did not match and I could not get the second screen working. So, I decided to wire up the old screen and see if we could get it to work. When, I did do that I found out that the screen was working fine, even with the crack, but the potentiometer had a pin that would not work. So I helped solder the pins onto the potentiomater and the screen worked fine. So I successfully got the screen to work and my task was a success