Lesson 5 - Water-Monitor/IoT-Portfolio-FJS GitHub Wiki
This lesson we worked on:
Reflection Stijn
At first the relay did not work in our code. It worked out that I did not call the relay itself, the example did not include it either. The wiring of the waterpump was also not clear for me and at the end the teacher helped Fadi and me with that. The dooropener, we made that work and it was so easy that I was even amazed that it already worked.
The videos were really boring in my opinion. I would rather had had a slide with things that are important. It did not help that I was mentally tired and the voice of the video had a lot of 's'-sounds what really triggered me. Besides, the information in the video itself felt like he said something in a lot of words and sentences, which could have been told in one sentence. I would have skipped the videos or put on a video where they talk about something technical or theoretical rather than just the challenges of IoT.
Reflection Fadi
In this lesson we had a theoretical session about IoT, it was beneficial and we gained more knowledge about the topic. In this lesson, we also tried out IoTempower which I really liked and the concept behind it, where it facilitated a lot for us by only implementing the code from GitHub we could already get the MCU:s working. I really liked the concept and think that this is a good step for IoT. I tried to connect to a button, which worked really smoothly for me where we followed a manual on Github and made the button functional.
Reflection Johanna
The last lesson with Arduino and a nice entrance to IoTempower. I really enjoyed working with the Dallas sensor and that the hardware part of the AC-simulator was way easier than the previous software version of it. It helped a lot with comprehending the task and was kinda nice to see the result as a product itself as well. In the afternoon, we watched a few movies, which was alright. But the audio struggle was a bit annoying and cost us too much time.