Week 3

Updates from the week of April 13th

This week we ordered our microcontroller. We decided to buy the RFduino for its size, and integrated bluetooth. It came along with our previous orders from last week on Saturday. This includes: wires, buttons, and small breadboards. We made a roadmap of what we will do in the future and began playing around with the RFduino. We were able to send characters/strings from the RFduino to our Android smartphone using RFduino test app. We read through the reference page and noted some important functions: Sleep function, sending characters, bytes, ints, floats, and remapping spi/i2c pins. We also looked through the IMU sensor datasheet and register mapping to figure out the i2c stuff.