Week 2

This week the group had 3 meetings and made progress on the Tweet Mapper.  This weeks progress:

1. The LEDs were powered and and a code was developed to light up specific LEDs. 

2. The code that interfaces with the twitter API was developed and we were able to successfully get locations based off tweets from a keyword. 

3. The casing of the project, with the map of the UK included, was made using Fusion360 

4. A plan for the lab script was made.  

A program was made to count through every LED of a cascaded strip of 4 matrices. The Arduino can only process one loop at a time because it uses a single threaded processor so it requires a programming technique called 'protothreading'. 

Picture of casing:

Picture of lit LED powered by Arduino: 


Tasks for next week:

1. Begin first draft of lab script 

2. Get casing printed and lasered 

3. Begin PCB design 

4. Integrate the code with the circuit and have functioning prototype. 






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