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...

This week we started working on the GUI design and layout to get a rough idea of which screens need to be created. I worked on confirming...

We decided that the 4 inch display was to small so I ordered a new one. The new one was dead on arrival. I spent a few hours...

Emailed back and forth with Dr. Ejaz to settle a date and time to meet on a weekly basis for this upcoming summer semester. Also did some...

I updated the website to reflect the Project, and no longer proposal tasks. Made a new Progress time and effort log to report time and...

This week we had our presentations. We did well, and got a ton of good feedback to consider. Making some changes to the cellular...

We presented our project to staff and industry professionals this week on April 20th, along with the 6 other groups doing their...

This week we both worked together for a few hours going over our presentation and making some adjustments to the flow and outline of the...

This week was when we worked on our presentations for proposal. My test node was not functional, so James and I meet to troubleshoot some...

Continued working on my test bench as I am still working out some of the kinks. I want to get this touchscreen to work, looks like a...

Began to work on presentation and continue to work on setting up the full test bench. Full bench is now ready and James and I will begin...

This week we finalized the presentation for review tomorrow. I also had a zoom session with Bryan to go over the hardware he has...

This week I worked on setting up the project task in planner to share with the group and stay on track with the top level tasks. The test...

Even though it was spring break I did some additional work finalizing the report so that Dr. Ejaz can share the report and updated...

This week I worked on finalizing the report with the addition of the new project timeline that has us starting the project in this week...

Some minor website edits were done as per Dr. Ejaz's request. James tested out the Arduino test bench he set up. I begin configuring the...

This week I meet with James who was nice enough to provide a test node for the project. Since James and I have test nodes at home, it...

This week I worked on incorporating the project survey questions and results into the report and onto the website. There was a total of...

I created the timeline for the website. Updated weekly adjustments to the website. Realized after making the timeline that we may be in a...

Worked on finalizing the report and updated the tables so they all match. Also put updated tables on the website based on feedback from...

A shorter week due to the discussion meeting with Dr. Ejaz being delayed due to event at the college. I have read most of the Python...

This week I focused much of my energy on Chapter 2 of the report including adding images and references to some of the devices that we...

James and I focused on completing chapter two of the proposal report. I focused on some revisions to the first chapter and writing an...

I added a few things to the website included the monetary budget reflecting actual project costs. I purchased the chassis for the...

This week I focused much of my effort on setting up the report template to the new word format and working on the first chapter of the...

This week I added the meeting minutes to the site in the standard format, updated the introduction to make the project more clear as...

I made some adjustments to the engineering requirements table of project 1 which were brought to our attention by Dr. Ejaz. Progress log...

This week focused on the group expanding on project idea #1. The CAN Driven HMI Display is something James is familiar with and I am...

As we began closing in on two project ideas, project idea #3 was rejected due to high costs. A new idea was introduced, an automatic pet...

Most of our time this week was spent on learning and getting an idea on how senior design was going to go from a workflow perspective....

This week I updated the market comparison by adding images of the devices to be compared to as shown below. I did some improvement to the...