Process

From the start, in view of functional and practical concerns of planting, I chose temperature and moisture sensor to be the input of my final device and connected them smoothly with the guidance of DIoT Lab. From not knowing anything about circuits to gradually learn the basic sense and know hows from the mechanical engineering background classmates and to being the one who can be helpful in debugging others' project, this process is backbreaking but fulfilling.

For me, most of my obstacles were about the functioning of my particle argon board. It broke down several times with the loss of the ability to either connect to the WiFi or the cloud, and thus being disabled for me to flash my code in. Though that was definitely the process of frustration, when I finished everything-- the code and the circuits-- but tasks just could not be done and I had noting to do in order to move on, I do appreciate all the help from the two TAs and the professor. I remember there was one Friday afternoon office hour, I brought my problem to the TA, and both of us worked on it for so long just trying to solve the issue. Looking from now, when the project is finally done and working, the comparison accelerate my sense of fulfillment and pride.