To: David G Michelson

From: EECE 380 Team L2D8

Date: February 14 2014

Subject: Project 1 Weekly Memo 4

Dear Professor Michelson,

This memorandum outlines the latest progress of the team for the week. The progress is being discussed into three main topics below.

Achievements from Last Week

Over the last week, our team organized a meeting to discuss ideas in designing and building circuits for the hardware part of the project. We researched on different types of motors and sensors in order to obtain the suitable ones to be used in our design. We decided some mandatory components and drew circuits for our design.  On last Friday we have learned how to use PUTTY to run scripts, create email filter and check forwarding in the email. We also continued working on the code using the computer and the modem in the lab.

Progress for This Week

During this week, we have successfully completed bash scripting, email subject line and header and had the ADC voltage values sent to our email. The ADC circuit we built last week is used to measure the voltage values. The voltage value changes with different voltage input values and the range is set to be from zero volts to 3.5 volts. We also started building the hardware part of the project after our team discussed and choose the best design. Currently we are continuing working on the FFS and GSM and hopefully improve the time delay between sending signals to the satellite and receiving the emails in return. We also use Orbcomm commands and currently working on to combine FFS and email contents by modifying the code.

Goals for Next Week

As reading week commences, our team decided to meet in the lab to continue working on both the hardware and software parts of the project. We are still waiting for our ordered parts to arrive and hopefully they will arrive early next week. We will also be doing a lot of testing and calculations throughout the design process.