This week was a busy one for team Brick by Bit, and involved many steps forward for both hardware and software.

This week was filled with many meetings for the Brick by Bit team. Within the SCI Lab, we reviewed several new sensors for environmental monitoring and made decisions on which modules to bring into our next round of prototypes. We also continued refining our dashboard design and officially began planning the layout for our first PCB. We finally met up with another researcher at the University that studies wireless charging of nodes throughout a farm, and a friend company that does some similar work to what we are doing in the lab.

The hardware team picked out particular sensors to order and begin integrating, a new micro-controller and LoRa chip/module, all to continue the beginnings of our first custom node PCB design. The software team is continuing to communicate with each other to develop a new dashboard, database schematics, and architectural plans for the next implementations.