Memorandum

To: Professor Michelson

From: EECE 380 L2D4 Group

Subject: Review of the Previous Week

Date: March 10th, 2014

This week marked the start of our second project, where we will communicate with a satellite to obtain information about weather, temperatures or other factors. Our group has split the tasks and has began the software component of the project. We have also been able to communicate with the satellite and are getting custom to the new requirements and factors of this communication system.

Milind and Martin will be responsible for the creation of the hardware components, including any mechanical structures that will respond to certain factors, the actuators. This seems like a wise task allocation since both members have experience in this domain and were the expert for this sort of responsibilities in the previous project.

Colin, Rushil and Keith will be responsible for the task of the software development of the ORBCOM project. All three members gained experience from the last project, and their software skills will come in handy to complete this new system.

For the first class of the Orbcom module, the software team communicated to the satellite through the use of emails, which will be the medium of communication between us and outer-space. The satellite will come in handy to provide us with useful information that will help our project run fluidly.

The hardware team began the construction of circuits that will likely be used in the future, such as a temperature sensor, a led-driver, and the completion of an operational amplifier circuit that can amplify certain signals that are too weak.