[HCII] Final Project Update 25-03-16

Am not going to rant. This is what actually happened with our project so far.

The Basic Components of the Baby Monitor project as taken from Han's Blog

As you can see in the previous post, we are trying to make a baby monitor which would send a notification to user's device if something happened. By those simple definition, you can see there will be data transfer process in the project. Personally, I think that this process will be one of the hardest to be done, and I guess all of our team member feel the same. So we tried to cover this one first.

For this part, we decided to use our old ESP8266 as we should be familiar to use it already. So, the components and the circuit design should be the same as the ones in my previous ESP8266 post. Just a reminder that the circuit design is not final as we still haven't add a microphone and a camera to it.

Circuit Design

The only thing we find missing is how does an ESP8266 transfer a data to other device? And what device should it be? For those question, we found something named Blynk. Blynk is an application for smartphone (android and iOS) that is designed to connect a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP8266 and many other hardware to a smartphone. To be honest, I am not really sure that this is what we are looking for since its documents doesn't say anything about image transfer, but i still think it would be worthy enough to try.

And so, the team members, except me, decided to try Blynk on Tuesday (it's 22 March if your calendar has been teared to pieces). Too bad I wasn't there to try it due to an appointment with a lecturer's assistant. And as I came back from the appointment to see the progress of those three doing, they still haven't find a way around to make it work. After that, we decided to end our try because of other assignment and other's hectic schedule. 

We could have get it covered by this week, sadly, we did not. For that i would like to offer my apology to you if you're not satisfied with our work on behalf of my team. Next time, we will come with better time management. And my apologise to every member of my team if i'm not being useful enough for this week. 

We will get this one covered. Stay tuned.

And tonight, we ride.