During today’s tutoring session some advices/demands were given about how our exhibition monter should be constructed.
It should look like a part of a room in a household and apart from the Power Plant and the simulated power central program running one one of the group’s laptops it should also contain atleast one real electric artifact found in a household.
The reason for this is that the visitors should be able the activate and deactivate the artifact and see the effect of their action on the Power Plant, just like it was meant to be if we did not have to simulate the power central and the appliances.
In order to do this the artifact needs to have its on/off switch modified and connected to an Arduino board connected to the laptop. Communication must also be set up between the program running on the Arduino and the program running on MATLAB.
A request was also made to have an interactive picture of a room in a household showing other electric appliances. By pressing embedded switches in this pictures these appliances would be activated and deactivated . A similar setup to the MATLAB program like in the case of the artifact will have to made if we choose to build this. We might also settle for switches to the appliances in the GUI of the program.
Many more posts about this will be made when we start to discuss it more.
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