User:Nkapustin/Project1

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Link to CDIO Report

Project Preference

 * 1) Wind Turbine
 * 2) Robot Hallway
 * 3) Smart Shoe

Problem Statement
''In one or two sentences, describe the project that your group will be working on. Identify which one or two CDIO documents your group will create in this project cycle.''

Project Plan
Briefly describe your group's plan for the next 4 weeks, including the specific activities that will take place each week.

Week 1 Narrative
''This week, not much was accomplished as we were just starting out our project. I started out by looking at previous designs of wind turbines that could be implicated into our design. I also worked on finding arduino code that displays voltage generated by the turbine and displays it on a LCD screen that'l be provided to us. Not much else was accomplished due to time restrictions and our planning phase took more time than expected.''

Week 2 Narrative
'' This is our design that will be used. Many of our designs didn't meet specifications that we had set, so this ended up being our final. ''

Week 3 Narrative
''This past week, our group was very productive. I finished the soldering of the pins onto the LCD screen, a task that was assigned to me. The LCD was then completley wired and we got it to work. We tested it with various lines of programming, showing that it will display what we program it to do. Next week, though, we need to find out how to program the arduino to display the voltage that will be produced by turbine. .''

Week 4 Narrative
During week four, Seth and I finished the coding for the LCD screen to output the voltage, current, and also the wattage. Though the readings we got were pretty consistent with the amount of energy we were putting into it, we were still getting pretty odd readings. Due to time constraints on the project, we had to leave the code at not fully functioning capacity because the resting voltage of the circuit wouldn't go below .48 volts, which was a problem because it said that even when there was no power being put into the system. It still preformed its function and gave the correct wattage reading from the wind it was producing, but the voltage was still a problem. We tried to troubleshoot the problem with the help our professor, but it seemed that the problem was not with the circuit, but the program itself. At that point, we couldn't find any fault with the program, and we had to abandon the project for the next group to try to fix.