Solar Powered, Multi-seated, Internetted Computer System Final Report December 3rd, 2008
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Jakub MazurJ  akub Mazur was the Project Manager of the team. He was heavily involved in photovoltaic component selection including: Determining the size of the PV array, sizing the battery array, wiring gauge selection, and the DC-AC inverter selection.
Jakub acted as supply chain manager since there needed to be a serious amount of logistics to be taken care of to source parts in Africa and communicate and assign tasks to the Tanzanian students. This included plenty of research, keeping up with emails on a daily basis and making phone calls at 2am to motivate third parties to do their job. This task turned out to be extremely time consuming and quite frustrating. The time-difference also played a role in this as often only one communication per day is possible. Jakub was also heavily involved in testing stages, he performed load current measurements using data acquisition hardware and programming in LabView. This provided critical power consumption data as well as capturing surge current data. His technical roles also included helping all the other team members with any issues they where having. He worked with Ben and Eric on the microprocessor power monitoring circuitry. He also worked with Eric to design and physically build the faceplate of the power monitoring equipment. Ben Kershner Ben Kershner, the document prep, handled the collaboration, formatting, and finalization of the team documentation. He also spent several days researching the types and prices of solar panels and batteries, and building a spreadsheet that helped to organize and analyze this data, so that the team could choose the most cost efficient parts of the power system.
The majority of Ben’s time was spent designing and programming the circuitry for the power system monitor. He built the prototype on a breadboard and wrote a series of proof-of-concept coding examples to test the various digital and analog I/O features of the PIC, including a custom LCD driver library to interface the PIC to a Motorola 44780-type chipset. Ben’s application note in measuring high DC voltages with the built-in ADC of the PIC in a power efficient manner was implemented in the final design of power system monitor. Ben also wrote the server side code to accompany the power system monitor. Written in C++, and taking advantage of UNIX system calls, it enables the server to pull metric data off of the PIC. It then writes this to an XML file, which is uploaded to an offsite server on a daily basis. Directory: classes -> ece480 -> capstone classes -> Unit 1: Exploration and Colonization classes -> Ap united States History Course Description classes -> Industrial Revolution classes -> 1–xx. The Redevelopment of a Warm Core Structure in Erin: a case of Inland Tropical Storm Formation classes -> Unit 7 Notes Organizer: C. Increasing Influences and Challenges); D. Challenges at Home & Abroad The United States in a Changing World (wwi) classes -> Unit 1: Colonial America (Twelve Days) Standard 1-2 Unit 2: Revolution (Ten Days) classes -> Review of Chapters 1-3, 8, and the appendix classes -> Seasonal Influences upon and Long-Term Trends in the Length of the Atlantic Hurricane Season capstone -> Configuring a Computer and Android Device for Android Development and Hardware Testing capstone -> Sponsor: Texas Instruments Ram Sathappan Download 4.42 Mb. Share with your friends:
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