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Solar Irradiance Microforecasting, Austin Jeffrey Fite, Sara Naseem Kipps
Solar Irradiance Microforecasting, Austin Jeffrey Fite, Sara Naseem Kipps
Computer Engineering
In late winter quarter 2018 the University of New Mexico and Microgrid Labs provided the Cal Poly Electrical Engineering department with their prototype Solar Irradiance Microforecasting (SIMF) hardware. This hardware was provided to the University under the lone condition that data collected with it would be returned to Microgrid Labs to train their weather model. The goal of this senior project was to take the provided hardware and software and make it usable for students in the Cal Poly Electrical and Computer Engineering departments to hack and expand. The end goal with the hardware is near term cloud and weather …
Automated Solar-Powered Chicken Coop Door, Brenna Yagade
Automated Solar-Powered Chicken Coop Door, Brenna Yagade
Computer Engineering
The purpose of this project was to plan, design, and build an automated, low power system to open and close a chicken-coop door, which is powered through a solar panel.
Smart Solar Oven, Aaron Gragg
Smart Solar Oven, Aaron Gragg
Computer Engineering
Though solar oven technology provides a green and cost effective means of cooking, it is often not adopted because it fails to meet the demands of speed and reliability that are commonplace in our society. This project explores the modification of a traditional box solar to meet these demands by allowing the oven to report temperature to a user’s phone as well as orient itself towards the sun throughout the day.
Bluelock: A Secure Bluetooth Operated Padlock, Trever Mckee
Bluelock: A Secure Bluetooth Operated Padlock, Trever Mckee
Computer Engineering
For this project a secure, battery operated, Bluetooth operated padlock was created. The project included both the hardware to integrate with a padlock and an Android application used to interface with the hardware. In order to make the padlock secure both AES encryption and challenge response authentication were used for secure message passing between the device and the Android phone. The project also included power consumption and sustainability tuning including exploring Arduino sleep states and integrating the project with a solar charging unit.