The homework was to complete the exercises in Building Wireless Sensor Networks, Chapter 5.

Ali and I set up the two sensor boards with XBees using potentiometers rather than the  LM335 temperature sensor. The third controller XBee was set up on a board according to the following diagram:

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The focus group session allowed for new perspectives on the building.

The participants were as follows:

Victoria — lived there since 1995. Enjoys the sense of community. Works on Wall St. Moved into building with her sister. Renata — From Germany. Lived in the building for 32 years. Feels like it is living in the countryside. [...]

The first challenge this week was to solder the breadboard pins to the XBee adapters. The best solution after multiple sculptural soldering attempts was to use a slightly flatter ended soldering head and to heat both the ring and the pin at the same time, and then momentarily touch the ring with a small piece [...]

Last September, while working for Afroes, I built a game for UN Women in Southern Africa to educate teenagers about Gender Based Violence. The game was designed around a popular Southern African board game called Morabaraba, or Zulu Chess that requires players to line up 3 tokens in row using lateral moves. Once a [...]