Week 1 Memo
Weekly Objectives
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Familiarize ourselves with the software such as IAR QCT, and putty.
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Use the turnkey application to send an email to a group email.
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Modify the ADC program to output the voltage of a channel on the Q4000
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Modify the program to email the voltage and change the subject line to differentiate your groups emails.
Challenges
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Due to class conflict we had only 1 hour to complete the ADC modifications.
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We were unable to send an email with a subject line containing the voltage to ourselves.
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Time management.
Next Week Itinerary
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Complete this weeks objectives, sending an email containing the voltage to ourselves with a subject line.
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Consider designs for the actuator part of the project.
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Complete all lab objectives given to us by the Teaching assistants.
Summary
In the first week of the Orbcomm SCADA project two objectives were assigned. First to use the turnkey demo application to send emails to a group email and to learn how to use the analog to digital converter application. Our group learned to use IAR workspace as well as QCT and putty to upload our modified code onto the Q4000. We were able to send an email to ourselves bearing the message “team conflict” by setting char *msgBody = “team conflict”. On Friday our group members only had one hour of lab time to complete the ADC application modification due to a conflict of classes. We were able to read the logger output the voltage through the use of putty by changing the definition of DEBUG_ADC_GETVOLTAGE to output the average voltage every few seconds, as well as changing the conversion factor and the default channel input to channel 0. The next task which we did not complete was to email ourselves the voltage and learn how to change the subject line to differentiate our emails from other groups emails. We ran out of time before we could complete the objective but have allocated time at the beginning of week 2 to complete the task before beginning the new tasks. Objectives for week 2 include completing the ADC modification as well as the assigned tasks to continue to learn about the Orbcomm system and also consider possible actuator designs for our project.