Blog Post #11

interfacing with ARGOS chip (top left) and Arduino UNO for satellite transmission testing

Over the past week Team MATR has been quite busy! The team has been hard at work putting together a prototype of our device for prototype inspection day. Electrical Engineers have been working on building the hardware we need to make satellite transmissions. Mechanical Engineers have been modelling the device in CAD software and running simulations to test the strength of the design. And Computer Engineers have been working on a GUI to organize and present data that was transmitted through the ARGOS system. The GUI will automatically pull data from ARGOS’ database and present it in the form of graphs, including a map for presenting GPS coordinates received from the tracker. We will be showing off all of these features in our prototype presentation, and hoping to get feedback we can use to improve our design.

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