Video Update

The Legacy Helmet demo has been uploaded on YouTube. The demo is short and concise, it is a replication on how football athletes receive hits.

Re scoping the project

The Legacy Team came to the conclusion that it is best to re scope the project. Because of difficulties with the TI Exosite and the CC3100, the helmet prototype will be presented in its Ethernet state.

TI Exosite Trouble

The team discovered that the Exosite does not support the CC3100. This is an obstacle because it limits the capability to make the project Wi-Fi compatible. Further research will be done to find out a way around this problem. Failure in doing so might result in re scoping the project on a small scale.

Acceleration data complete

The launchpad can now read acceleration data and the next step is to graph the data.

Marketing Presentation

Today the team met with product marketeer, LaRetta Bertram to discuss the essentials of a marketing presentation. Part of the presentation emphasized the importance of including sections that explain the:

-SWOT
-State of the Market
-Value Proposition
-Pre-launch
-Post-lauch

• send email to ti mentors list
• lunch with cathy and candy
• football helmet
• ask dave about cc3100  
• how data is getting from sensor hub to control to wifi
•   Use UART and needs to formatted on the board. the interface we’re using with ethernet may be a different (SPI) interface from what we’re going to use with wifi
• update blog

HR person

-how things are going

    enriching educational experience or not (feedback)

Meeting with Dave

• Orange light needs to be gone (needs to be reset)
• red light needs to be on (shows there is power)
• Green light needs to be on and this is missing (shows the device is ready)
• Problem is the connection between CC3100
• need to look up CC3100 and Tm4C guide (not available)
• basically couldn’t figure it out
• figure out if the problem is a jumper

CCS Blinky

CCS Problems

Two members of the team continue to have problems with CCS, we hope to fix this problem and run the demo by the next week.

Our team member Trevor has made progress with his work and has successfully communicated between the launchpad and sensors

Build

Research

Patents

Sponsors

Schedules/Goals

BOM (Parts list, Material cost)

Prototype

Testing/Evaluation

Name, Functions, Features, Benefits

Github for code

Promotion

Website

Social Media (Twiiter, Facebook, Youtube)

Price

School Announcements

Links

http://elkinsinventeam.blogspot.com/

http://boosterbot.in/

http://www.ti.com/ww/en/launchpad/boosterpacks.html

Assignments

-Email Peggy something we learned in engineering class that wasn’t assigned to us

-Get an engineering notebook

-Find Launchpad BOM

CCS Work

Currently the team is working with CCS and are trying to run simple demos.
Our team member Trevor was able to properly run his first demo.

-risk analysis

-weekly reports

-research communication on parts

-communication protocol involved? or just analog

-specs, port to launchpad, dividing work

Trevor- coding (making the accelerometer work with the launchpad)

Twinkle- communication with the outside world from the launchpad

Marvin- communication between accelerometer and nfc patch with the launchpad

Schedule Update

TM4C129

-Launchpad(connected with launchpad)

-wifi compatible

-Sensor hub boosterpack (accelerometer)

-CC3100 Booster Pack

-wifi

EK-TM4C1294XL

BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy)

-current (voltage amount)

-range

NFC Patch

find batter sized necessary by looking at the length of field

-sensor patch

-no battery

-nfc on phone

-hydration: patch NFC

-hacking (security)

-impact (accelerometer)  

Requirements

range battery life difficulty how to read the data

how far durability how often it reads data

Cellphone vs. watch vs. computer

Accelerometer vs. injury patch

real time hydration instant heart rate

impact temp. no battery

To Do Tasks/Goals for next meeting

-scope -talk to trey -app or phone? -graph -Cell v. Watch v. Comp.

Proposed Block Diagram and Helmet Requirements

Proposed Block Diagram

 















Helmet Requirements
-range
-battery
-durability
-constant data
-difficulty
-safety

Goals and Constraints

Goals 

- Provide readable measurements of the impact data 

-Figure out how the data will be represented (Graph, table, etc) 

-Durable and safe

-Constant data

Constraints

 -18 week time period (Deadline: June 1st) 

 -3 people teams

 -must use a launchpad 

 -can't use too much energy