Made an adjustable fixture for our outside light sensor. Met up with Vasyl to test auto mode, and worked on chapter 3 of the report....

Had the Flu from Tuesday to Saturday. Vasyl ordered and delivered a new solar panel, charge controller and battery for me to implement...

Made adjustments to the main function of the room sensors code, allowing for accurate data transmission in the format needed for the...

For accurate time keeping I had to integrate a DS-1307 RTC module. The RTC module is used for keeping current time for custom mode timers...

While extensively testing manual mode, a spike in temperature of the motor was noticed. This is largely due to constant ON of pins 8 and...

The goal of this week was to finish locking in all the components of the system into the housing, solve the issue of 10A flowing through...

The goal for this week was to lock in all the components into the frame/housing (didn't really happen because I got sick), as well as...

The motor functionality was added to the received phone app data. The motor was set up to turn in approximately 20 degrees at a time...

After some delay, the boost converter and other components arrived allowing testing to continue. The boost converter was adjusted to...

Began looking into ways to store data incase either circuit looses power, so the system can resume normal operations when power is...

The focus of this week was to resolve the issue of battery not being able to be charged and discharged simultaneously. And to finish all...

Ran into some issues when attempting to parse the data send over involving MANUAL mode. The issue was resolved by running beginning and...

*This week's goal was to get the power supplied by the solar panel to the battery, and have the battery power the motor, while the...

Added Bluetooth communication to the system, allowing the ambient room light to be sent to the system in the blinds. System is...

Phone App: Block code was restructured for simpler view of all the code for each mode/ Bluetooth initialization [18] [19]. The AUTO and...

*During week 2, it became evident that the motor either lacked sufficient torque or wasn't receiving enough power for the torque neede....

Initially tested multiple sensors communicating to the same MCU simultaneously using their average value to adjust the LED's as well as...

The manual mode is completed for the phone app and was tested to demonstrate the user saved timers/ user able to delete any previous...

Both the ambient and incident light sensors were tested multiple times to ensure proper operation. The test consisted of turning on and...

*At the end of week 1, the motor with the coupling was able to move the blinds up or down in 30 degrees (in 10 degree increments),...