Status

Description

This is the source code of our (Spring-Fall 2020) capstone project for Electrical and Computer Engineering department at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

Team Members

Erick A Baca
- Hardware testing and system integration
Jesus Minjares
- Embedded software and firmware testing
Cynthia Oaxaca
- Power System
Mariano Urbina
- Hardware design

Requirements

[✓] Firmware running at real-time
[✓] Read pressure sensor at 100hertz
[✓] Wireless communication between two MCUs
[✓] Capture system location using a GPS
[✓] Time stamp capture data
[✓] Solar tracker to find optimal postion for the battery charger

Source Code

The source code is maintained through GitHub, here is the source code

IPIA Data Capture

To visualize the data that was being capture, a python script was develop that reads the data being transmitted via the wireless communication. The script uses pyserial and matplotlib packages to send the capture data from the HC-05 Module and store it into a csv file. Here is small demostration.