LED Weather Mapper

 

 We decided last minute to change the project to an LED rain tracker instead because the Arduino API does not allow for location tracking of tweets. This uses the same logic and hardware but has been tweaked slightly to take the data from the open weather map. Our poster and potential lab script will be on the LED Rain Mapper instead. 

  This is the last week dedicated to working on the project properly,  as next week is the bench inspection week where supervisors will look at our project, poster, blog etc.  This week the usual group meetings were met and as usual good progress was made. this weeks notes and progress: 1. the casing prototype was printed and delivered. An image of the prototype is shown below: 2. the wifi module for the Arduino arrived but it doesn't work with any software 3. the wrong pcb was delivered, it has the right chip but wrong pcb, so a new one has been ordered.  4. The  random number generator works to find each display depending on the output, there was an issue. with lighting the number the LED correlates to within each display but this has been sorted out now. An issue getting the ESP where codes can be compiled but cannot be uploaded was encountered.  We realised that using an Arduino and separate WiF module was quite difficult to program. This combined with ...