Project Update
Quick note: From last week, I was very lucky in having been able to pair up with Kevin Li, an individual with computer skills far beyond mine. His blog is: http://excellentexception.blogspot.com/ . Together we have an expanded budget of $40 and so have expanded the possible features we might include in our prototype.
What was done today?
- Got all the parts in today.
- Discovered that we are missing a particular cord to connect the charger to photon bord… Probably going to have to find one of those soon.
- Worked on geolocation to provide an accurate location for the photon.
- Still a whole lot to do with this and I really don’t understand any of it. Kevin will probably lead the effort on this.
- As far as I understand, this geolocation is used in conjunction with a google feature that will determine the location of a device based on the Wifi signals near it.
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation/intro
- Worked on getting the screen to work.
- While we did eventually get the demo program to run on the screen, it was only with an UNO board and not with the photon.
- Works rather well though, quite a bit better than I thought it would based on its rather cheap price.
What needs to be done by next week?
- Work on getting the display to either:
- Work with the arduino and display relevant information to first aid.
- Just work with the photon.
- Work on the geolocation and sending a location to a print screen.
Questions?
- The screen needs a lot of wiring (see picture below). How am I supposed to make this into a portable device?
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