We began week 4 by checking to see if our router and battery had arrived.
Much to our dismay, they had not. As such, we decided to focus on progressing our other output methods further. Surya and Herbert began by attempting to configure an LCD screen to display any information, so that the weather station could, if needed, function entirely on it's own. This went well, and our weather station was soon able to display an output. As such, Herbert and Surya went to go and solder the LCD to a veroboard, and subsequently try and design an overall layout for the entire system so that it could be packaged and presented neatly. Anuraag meanwhile informed Katherine and Alex that to he would like the input for the GUI to be doubles, with 1 double for each value. As such, Katherine and Alex spent the morning trying to adapt the code which took in serial data. Again, this was fairly successful, and we soon had methods set up which, when called, would return back the latest value for each quantity we were measuring.
The afternoon however was less productive. Katherine and Alex decided to help Anuraag as much as they could by attempting to learn about GUI creation. This proved to be very difficult to do in the Java language, and after a very long afternoon, they were approached by a demonstrator, who informed them that they would have a far easier time using Visual Studio than trying to build a GUI with Java. The team felt a little disappointed, but thankful that they would still have a week to create a new GUI with visual studio.
Surya and Herbert meanwhile had made excellent progress with the packaging of the weather station, and we now had something resembling a finished product.
