Spring Semester

Brick by Bit – Week 21 Blog Post

This week, we continued to prepare for our initial site deployment. Our liaison told us he intends to begin this process the week after Spring Break, so we have been preparing for the big moment. Richie worked on encrypting the… Read More

Brick by Bit – Week 20 Blog Post

This week, the team made further developments in both hardware and software. The website was improved to have different displays for different accounts clearances, an important milestone in making it ready for deployment and use. Work was also done on… Read More

Brick by Bit – Week 19 Blog Post

This week, the team achieved several important milestones across hardware and software development. We completed our first successful 3D prints of the PCB enclosure, marking a major step forward in preparing the device for physical deployment. The website is now… Read More

Brick by Bit – Week 18 Blog Post

This week, Team Brick by Bit made significant progress across hardware, software, and deployment planning. On the hardware side, we completed three 3D test prints to refine our PCB enclosure design. We began with simple box models to determine proper… Read More

Brick by Bit – Week 17 Blog Post

This week, Brick by Bit made some solid headway across both hardware and software as we continue refining our system. The team tackled enclosure design, got key hardware components working, and cleaned up nagging database issues. On the hardware side,… Read More

Brick By Bit – Week 16 Blog Post

This week brought solid progress as we continue building out our IoT gateway system for real-world deployment. The team tackled everything from security upgrades and enclosure design to backend improvements and hardware assembly, moving us closer to a system that… Read More

Brick by Bit – Week 15 blog Post

This week included a combination of hardware progress and backend infrastructure work. A PCB was fully soldered and assembled, but testing is currently blocked due to discovering that the battery connector size was incorrect. While frustrating, assembling the board early… Read More

Brick By Bit – Week 14 Blog Post

Over winter break and during our first week back, the Brick by Bit team made strong progress across hardware, backend, and website development. This stretch was focused on closing out major tasks that had been in progress and setting a… Read More