Senior Design - 2023
Valencia College

Did some quick testing with the device in a hot vehicle. Worked on some final things to add to the report before the final submission....

This week we made final edits to the project report and incorporated the code in the appendix. I updated the website main page with an...

This week I focused most of my efforts on corrections and updates to the final report. Part of those updates involved some additional...

Made a few additional changes to the report alongside some of the items James added. Added some information about the testing we did, and...

A lot of this week was catching up from the limited amount I had last week due to some work travel I had to do. Following my arrival from...

This week I spent many hours getting the bulk of the final report sections completed for the source code and program operation. I also...

I started working on the final report and re-organized the proposal to make room for the new components needed. A link to the draft...

This week we could not meet with Dr. Ejaz due to some complication with schedules. This week I traveled to British Columbia, Canada for a...

This week we finalized nearly all of the required parts of the gui and are ready to do live testing from the device on an actual vehicle....

Created a larger casing for the project. Also divided it into three separate pieces that are assembled which should help with putting the...

This week I focused on getting the One-Wire GPIO sensor working on the device. There are numerous tutorials online to show the basics of...

Put the entire system into the 3D printed case. Everything is working but a few flaws in our original design became apparent. These will...

This week I worked with the printer to get an acceptable file to them for printing. Got something over to them and got it printing,...

I started off this week to work on the datalogging portion of the project, but first had to re-configure the whole project so far to put...

The additional power switch arrived and I tested it out. It does not switch to the backup battery fast enough to not interrupt power to...

This week I completed making separate threads operate in they python GUI so that the CAN signals can be updated in the background and the...

To being, I ordered the final solution for the battery on the device and tested it. The 12V 2000 mAH battery functions. All the testing...

This week was a lot of work for programming the GUI. The original thought was to program with Tkinter, but that proved to be very time...

This week I focused on how we were going to power the CAN HMI with both DC power and a battery. I found two key components on Amazon to...

This week I started on the GUI design in python and created a base GUI screen for the main program including the buttons to access each...