Brick by Bit had a packed third week; we met with our coach, our liaison (gave us a project and lab overview, showed us the SCI-Lab), with Dev (current software lead who gave us a good overview), rotated team roles, updated our logo and name, and knocked out some other assignments.

In class we brain-walked to brainstorm ideas for features that need to be added to the project. We came up with a couple ideas including an app, secure over the air updates with fail-over strategies, custom PCB’s, and more.

After talking with Dev, we have greatly narrowed down the scope of work. He is working on secure communication between nodes, so we will focus on getting the cloud server up and running, as well as establishing a connection from the gateway to the cloud. After these are done we should have a working prototype that we can then begin adding more features too.

Immediate next steps include our team building workshop this weekend, being added to the team’s channel, and scouring it for existing documentation, code, and schematics.