BTech 451

Log - Semester 2

Week 1: (3rd March - 9th March)

Met with Mano and the other BTech students at Tamaki and had my project assigned to me.
Got in touch via email with my academic supervisor Ulrich Speidel, my industry supervisor Anthony Thornton, and Nick Clements, who will also be a part of the project.

Week 2: (10th March - 16th March)

Met with Ulrich and saw the solar setup at his house.
Got access to the web app for Ulrich's solar setup, with it I am able to view basic information about the power status of the system.
Met with Ulrich, Anthony and Nick at Vector's head office in Newmarket. Discussed the project.
Got told to I may be implementing the API in a web app, so as I hadn't done much web development before, I started learning some HTML, JS and CSS.

Week 3: (17th March - 23rd March)

Week 4: (24th March - 30rd March)

Week 5: (31st March - 6th April)

Discussed some initial API findings with Anthony, got told to start practising with Arduino.
Started experimenting with Arduino, found a basic emulator/simulator.
Found Arduino was inadequate for what we are wanted the device to do.

Week 6: (7th April - 13th April)

Met with Ulrich and discussed my API findings and documentation, discussed how Arduino was inadequate for the project and we decided to go with Raspberry Pi.
Met at Vector with Ulrich, Tony, and some other members of the Vector Solar team. Discussed many aspects of the project including the Raspberry Pi decision. They agreed on using a Raspberry Pi.
Did some further work on developing the website for this project.

Mid-Semester Easter Break Week 1: (14th April - 20th April)

Wasn't able to do much on the project over this break due to other papers and personal commitments.

Mid-Semester Easter Break Week 2: (21st April - 27th April)

Wasn't able to do much on the project over this break due to other papers and personal commitments.

Week 7: (28th April - 4th May)

Met with Ulrich and discussed the project some more. Cleared up some things with him.
Did some further research into Java HTTPS libraries.
Ordered the Raspberry Pi for the project.

Week 8: (5th May - 11th May)

Started working on the decision making program. Implemented querying the API and getting some basic state information about the system.
Met with Ulrich and showed him my progress on the Program. Got some feedback from him on both my project and my seminar slides.
Gave my mid-semester presentation at Tamaki in front of Mano, the other BTech (IT) students and some academic supervisors. Got some feedback on the presentation of my project.

Week 9: (12th May - 18th May)

Worked on my decision-making program further. Reduced the amount of GET's used while the program is running, while keeping functionality.
Set up a Raspberry Pi and installed an operating system on it.
Sorted out the Raspberry Pi's IP addressing so it can connect to the internet, and I can locally connect to it using SSH.
Got an early version of my decision making program to run on the Raspberry PI. It runs successfully.

Week 10: (19th May - 25th May)

Started to work on my mid-year report
Met with Ulrich to show him my progress and discussed the next steps in the project
Emailed people at Vector and others involved with the project and started to discuss plans to install the Raspberry Pi

Week 11: (26th May - 1st June)

Unfortunately I was too busy with other coursework and I wasn't able to work on this project.

Week 12: (2nd June - 8th June)

Study/Exam Week 1: (9th June - 15th June)

Study/Exam Week 2: (16th June - 22nd June)

Study/Exam Week 3: (23rd June - 29th June)