Our Project, Looking Ahead...

Hi again. So, if you read my previous in this space you might know by now what I’m going to talk
about. Our final delivery, a project. If you want to read my previous post, I invite you to do so here.
We have the freedom to choose the project we’ll be working on, as long as Ken approves it.We got
into teams, and after talking about it for a while, we decided to work on a greenhouse project where
you can monitor the conditions for your plant(s) remotely and track changes through time. We plan
to do this with the help of a Raspberry Pi and a back-end infrastructure that allows you to check on
the data collected by the Raspberry Pi sensors. Our name? Berry House. It’s a cool name, right?
You can see a live progress of it all on Github. We'll also keep track of our milestones and upcoming
issues there.


I’m personally very interested in this project, not only because I like the idea of technology involved
in aspects of greenhouse (as this project), but on a bigger scale, technology making an impact on
the way humans influence nature; using it as a tool for bigger change. For example, this and this. That just
lows my mind away...
So, yes. We’ll apply the knowledge we gain along the semester to this project, and with an agile
methodology, we’ll iterate and work in sprints. We’ll deliver project milestones and make our way to
our “final” delivery.
As always, if you want more updates, sit tight. More posts to come.

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