Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Communication is communicating

Arduino Bluetooth to a putty terminal on my laptop was successfully set up. Right now it is set up so an on board LED can be turned on or off otherwise the Bluetooth module echoes back what it received.






Monday, January 27, 2014

It's below zero, but at least I have the maps up and working.

This week I worked on getting the android map application up and running; which will be used purely for testing and development(as those without sight won't need a map layout, and we want to save energy with our application).

It was somewhat of a hassle to get the Google Maps API up and running, as I needed to correctly set up the Google Play Services API, which requires an authorization key, as well as downloading/installing extra libraries.

The IDE I am using to develop this portion of the project is the Eclipse Android Development Suite, which is a modified version of Eclipse that Google has released. It includes a android SDK manager, as well as a virtual device emulator. It's pretty convenient overall.

My next step in this process will be to be able to input an address and have a route from the users current position to the target location be created.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Our Milestones, Calendar, and Task Assignments.

Here's the link to our schedule in Google Docs!

Our Calendar

Hope you all enjoy, and have a warm evening!