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  Kevin Young • 12/18/2015 at 23:03 • 0 comments

  Date	Hours	Work Done	Problems to Solve - (Date completed)
  12/8/2015	1.5	Completed Validation Exercises Placed device in river and left overnight	sleep the Stalker between readings calibrate the sensors design new 3D model for enclosure
  12/1/2015	2	Fixed Date and time on the board Continued working on HTTP Completed walkthrough with Professor Purtilo	Need to seal box up and place in water - (12/8) Adjust format of data for bulk upload - (12/5) Continue trying to make HTTP work - (12/5)
  11/29	~5	Assembled components into box Continued working to get HTTP requests working	HTTP requests not working - (12/5 - Kevin got it working, great job!)
  11/25	~7	Constructed a new box large enough to fit all of our components Acquired resources to build a floatation apparatus for the device Continued working to get the 3G shield to communicate with the stalker	Alternatives to using the stalker if 3G shield won't communicate with it - (11/25 - Setting in arduino IDE was causing issue) How to power the Uno if the stalker won't work - (11/25 - unnecessary, see above)
  11/24	2	Continued working on 3G shield	SoftwareSerial library apparently not working correctly to communicate with shield - (11/25)
  11/18	2	Began working with 3G shield	Arduino unable to find shield - (11/25) Come up with a solution for the shield and arduino each needing their own batteries - (11/20)
  11/15	4	Continued trying to fix the issue when writing to the SD card Started writing code to read from the sensors and read data from them Reviewed the design of the apparatus to mount the device in the stream and decided to scrap the water level measurements	Need to acquire the resources for building the apparatus - (11/25) Need to acquire a 4.7kOhm resistor in with the temp sensor - (11/18) Need to design a method to connect the Turbidity sensor into the circuit - (N/A, sensor fried)
  11/8	3	Began writing Arduino code to write to the SD card	The arduino writes only once when there should be several writes - (11/15) SD card has to be reformatted after removal for the Arduino to initialize it - (11/15) Date and Time on the board is wrong - (11/29)

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