Week 6 - Building the mount of Bluno + Lora & android interfacing

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Building the mount

We thought of making a mount for the dashboard solely for demonstration purposes and it will not be the actual mount used for SunSPec 5. The idea is to have a variable resistor replicating as each of the sensors that will be used for the car. When the knobs are turned, the values increases and decrease accordingly, whereby the changes will then be reflected on the dashboard.
We started off with a wooden base but after some drilling and cutting, we found out that the skin of the wood flakes off easily when drilling, damaging the texture. We then proceeded with an acrylic base and bent it.

We have also received 2 LoRa modules from Mr.Joe to test them out, whereby it's effective range of transmission is up to 5km within the range of sight. However, we have only tested from T1023 to the solar car workshop @ W12, and it is still working normally.


Attending IOT seminar

Some relevant things we have found out from the seminar were regarding Bluetooth and LoRa as shown below:
Note: The pictures belong to Microchip and we claim no ownership to them.

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