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Fwd: EPICS India: Help with buttons and Arduino
by Rahul Maheswaran 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Adeline Naon <addienaon(a)gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 10:34:53 AM To: Rahul Maheswaran Subject: Re: EPICS India: Help with buttons and Arduino Rahul, There should be no problem with your code. I’m guessing you have the wrong circuitry. It’s a bit hard to explain, but I’ve attached some picture of the buttons from the project we are working on. Generally it should be set up like this: Input: Positive pin, front pin (the one sticking out in front) Output: ground pin, bottom pin If you are using a resistor it should be connected to the bottom pin as well This is the setup for a basic button circuit. In the picture I sent you, the input is # 13, and the output # 6. On Feb 12, 2018, at 10:44 PM, Rahul Maheswaran <rmaheswa(a)purdue.edu<mailto:rmaheswa@purdue.edu>> wrote: Hi Adeline, I am the project manager for EPICS India, and I'd like to thank you for the time taken to read and reply to that message. I just wanted to let you know that it's highly possible that the problem primarily revolves around the button's leads. Our initial circuit was using a simple tactile Arduino button (the tiny black ones) The circuit response was as expected and everything worked fine. The issue we are having is that after wiring the button to the circuit (a simple one, as seen in the code attached) when we use the serial monitor to monitor everytime it's pressed, it either goes haywire or doesn't register at all. When we replaced the same button with the tiny one, it works fine. I'd really appreciate it if you could take a look at the code attached (picture) and let me know if you spot anything wrong outright. Just to make it easier for you understand, the code attached involves an Arduino and the button only. It will increase the count from 0-4, by an increment of 1, every time the button is pressed and then resets to 0 and loops all over again. Thanks, Rahul ________________________________ From: Adeline Naon <addienaon(a)gmail.com<mailto:addienaon@gmail.com>> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 7:39:37 PM To: Zaina Mae El-Demerdash Cc: Lucas D Allegrette; Rahul Maheswaran; Lauren Nicole Comer; Alexis Jane Marks Subject: Re: EPICS India: Help with buttons and Arduino Hi EPICS India, I took a look at the buttons you ordered and see no problem with those. They should integrate into your circuit without a problem. I’ll admit that if you don’t have a lot of experience with circuitry, pushbuttons with LEDs can be tricky. It’s a little hard for me to help you any further through email because the problem is likely in your code or circuitry. My advice would be to build a simple circuit with one pushbutton and basic code in Arduino. That should give you a better idea of which leads should be connected to where. Alternatively if the LED is flashing at all or just seems wonky you may have the leads switched or may need to add a resistor. It’s hard for me to be any more specific through email not knowing what exactly the problems are. If you are still having issues integrating, I’d be happy to take a look at your code or circuitry if you send me files/pictures. Please feel free to ask any follow up questions you have. On Feb 12, 2018, at 3:07 PM, Brenna Ryan <ryan99(a)purdue.edu<mailto:ryan99@purdue.edu>> wrote: Zaina, Thanks for reaching out! Addie is our resident pro with arduino and these buttons, so I have cc'd here on this email. I hope she can be of some help! Sincerely, Brenna Ryan Multidisciplinary Engineering/Pre-Med | May 2018 Gold of Philanthropy and RRLT | Purduettes Executive of Programming | College Mentors for Kids ryan99(a)purdue.edu<mailto:ryan99@purdue.edu> | 636-484-0695 On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Zaina Mae El-Demerdash <zeldemer(a)purdue.edu<mailto:zeldemer@purdue.edu>> wrote: Hello! I'm Zaina, a part of EPICS India, and our TA told us that you may be able to give us advice on using buttons with Arduino. We're having problems with these<https://www.amazon.com/EG-STARTS-Illuminated-Buttons-Operated/dp/B01M7PNCO9…> we ordered off Amazon and were wondering if you used any buttons for your projects and which ones work with Arduino? Thank you! Zaina El-Demerdash Purdue University ▫︎ College of Engineering Society of Women Engineers ▫︎ Senior Sleepover co-chair <Screen Shot 2018-02-12 at 10.38.34 PM.png>

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EPICS Announcements - Design Review Edition
by Pierce, Andrew L 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Important EPICS Week 6 Announcements ________________________________ Design Documents - Due This Week! Your design documents should be updated and uploaded to sharepoint on the day of your lab this week. * Upload Instructions o Convert your document to a PDH and name it SPRING18_ MIDTERM _YOURTEAM_YOURPROJECT.PDF. o Navigate to the Design Review Sharepoint at https://sharepoint.ecn.purdue.edu/epics/designreview/ and then find the correct day of the week for your team and your team's folder. o Upload your PDH and delete any old versions. ________________________________ Design Reviews - Next Week * Dress code is business casual or better. * Plan to use the podium PC, not your personal laptop. Preferably bring your presentation on a flash drive. * Do not log in/out of the podium PC with your personal account. * Leave the GoToMeeting session on and do not adjust the screen sharing. * Teams are responsible for inviting their community partners and any guest reviewers from on-campus (faculty, etc.). ________________________________ Upcoming PDHs * Autodesk Fusion 360 - Feb 12 * Learning Series IV - Feb 13 * Project Archivist II - Feb 13 * Many more this week! ________________________________ Andrew Pierce EPICS Academic Administrator Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering - Room 1209 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Email: pierce1(a)purdue.edu<mailto:pierce1@purdue.edu> Phone: (765) 414-2107 http://www.purdue.edu/epics

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Button Contacts
by Kelsey N Welch 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Camp Riley Design Lead Whack-A-Light: ryan99(a)purdue.edu Imagination Station Advisor Tim Pritchett: tpritche(a)purdue.edu<mailto:tpritche@purdue.edu> Advisor Kathleen Wible: wible(a)purdue.edu<mailto:wible@purdue.edu> Project Manager Lucas Allegrette: lallegre(a)purdue.edu Kelsey Welch, E.I.T. Candidate for Masters of Science in Civil Engineering Structures EPICS Graduate Teaching Assistant

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EPICS Week 5 Announcements
by Pierce, Andrew L 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

Important EPICS Week 5 Announcements ________________________________ Student Service Learning Grants - Due Feb 7 Purdue's Office of Engagement provides grants to students or student organizations for work on community service learning projects. This program's goal is to expand the community involvement of Purdue students in partnership with communities, nonprofit agencies, schools, and governmental bodies. Both the application and guidelines for the Student Grant Program for Community Service/Service Learning Projects can be found online: https://slg.engagement.purdue.edu ________________________________ Design for Social Impact Over one billion families live in severe housing conditions due to poverty, pollution, and natural disasters. Local communities need your help to develop sustainable living solutions. Autodesk(r), WorldSkills<https://www.worldskills.org/>, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)<http://www.unhcr.org/> , and GoSol.org<http://www.gosol.org/> have teamed up to test your CAD skills to help design solutions to support impacted communities in the Design for Social Impact Challenge. See https://sqore.com/opportunity/design-for-social-impact<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1km9oWZ5ARQs5jLbCKWmJ82TT9CmOWuDmEevvtULkMq7Wn…> ________________________________ Harris Encoder Verification System Harris is seeking undergraduate engineering students for a research team working on encoder verification. See attached flier for details. ________________________________ Andrew Pierce EPICS Academic Administrator Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering - Room 1209 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Email: pierce1(a)purdue.edu<mailto:pierce1@purdue.edu> Phone: (765) 414-2107 http://www.purdue.edu/epics

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PDH Announcement: Implementing Scrum - Tomorrow
by Pierce, Andrew L 29 Jan '18

29 Jan '18

Agile and Scrum methodologies have transformed the ways projects are run in Industry in recent years, and a working knowledge of how to practice these methods would be invaluable to your careers and to your EPICS teams. Ankit Maewall, a senior on the ISBVI team, has had great success implementing scrum techniques on his EPICS project, and will be sharing his experiences and teaching the basics of scrum in a new series of PDHs starting TOMORROW. Sign up in MyEPICS to attend. What: Implementing Agile Where: ARMS 1095 When: Tomorrow, Jan 30 at 5 pm Worth: One PDH per session Who: For any EPICS student, but especially for design leads and PMs. Andrew Pierce EPICS Academic Administrator Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering - Room 1209 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Email: pierce1(a)purdue.edu<mailto:pierce1@purdue.edu> Phone: (765) 414-2107 http://www.purdue.edu/epics

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EPICS Week 4 Announcements
by Pierce, Andrew L 26 Jan '18

26 Jan '18

Important EPICS Week 4 Announcements ________________________________ Student Service Learning Grants - Due Feb 7 Purdue's Office of Engagement provides grants to students or student organizations for work on community service learning projects. This program's goal is to expand the community involvement of Purdue students in partnership with communities, nonprofit agencies, schools, and governmental bodies. Both the application and guidelines for the Student Grant Program for Community Service/Service Learning Projects can be found online: https://slg.engagement.purdue.edu ________________________________ Upcoming PDHs * Catia II - Jan 29th * Learning Series II - Jan 30th * Entrepreneurship Series III - Jan 31st * Arduino I - Jan 31st ________________________________ Due This Week * Individual Documentation/Notebook Check * Semester Plan/Gantt Charts * Budgets and Grant Submissions * Website Updates ________________________________ IEEE Software Saturdays Learn coding skills for free without the hassle of taking a class. See attached flier for details. ________________________________ Andrew Pierce EPICS Academic Administrator Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering - Room 1209 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Email: pierce1(a)purdue.edu<mailto:pierce1@purdue.edu> Phone: (765) 414-2107 http://www.purdue.edu/epics

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Weekly Update
by Rahul Maheswaran 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Hey guys, Great job on the casing. It looks really good. Since we are settling into the semester, I will give a small overview of the work we have. So this is probably going to be the longest email I will send. Please make sure you take like 5 minutes to go through the entire thing and let me know if you have any questions. 1. Notebooks: By now I hope everyone has access to their notebooks. If not let me know (or Kelsey/Claire) and get it sorted out ASAP. 2. Semester Timeline: Great job on this. It's due by week 4, but we are already done with it, so we don't have anything to worry about. 3. Website: So this is for Lexi. The team's website (https://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/india/) should be updated. You can sign up for the webmaster skill sessions so that you can also earn your PDH hours and get the job done at the same time. If not, please let me know, and we can sort this out. The website will have to reflect the current team and the previous semester's team. The layout is already coded so unless you want to feel like you want to change the design (which I'm totally okay with) you can just change the reference links to the images and change the wording. 4. We will have an informal notebook review next week. So please start working on your notebooks if you already haven't. 5. PDH Hours: Please make sure you get your PDH credits as soon as you can so that it doesn't become a hassle at the end of the semester when you feel like everything that can go wrong, is going wrong. 6. Design document: It isn't due until week 6, but I think we can save a lot of time and stress if we start working on it right away. Let's split portions during lab and talk about it more then. 7. PIGS: This is specifically for Lexi as we are doing the same thing we did last semester. Instead of trying to meet up at the same time just to figure out our PIGS, we will try to do our PIGS online. We will use the same link every week. (I will download it every Friday before lab) So, whenever you feel like you made some progress/came across an issue, please update it on the presentation. This link is : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UgIqMJNdNWfSVrHCFNJ7Yky3W-6QVzZOUkn… 8. Finally, about the project itself. There is a lot of potential progress with this project, and it will look really good on the team if we can deliver it well within time. Remember that this isn't anyone's project but yours. If you feel like you want to change something/or don't like an idea and want to do it some other way, please feel free to go ahead with it. I don't know about everyone, but if I were in your position, I would feel like I have no idea what's going on with the entire Arduino ordeal and feel like I can't contribute. This isn't true because, to be honest, I too have no idea what we should be doing with it. Google and people with experience are your best friends, and everything is self-taught. Feel free to go to the EPICS lab and take a look at the Arduino circuit and google what's going on, if it helps you understand it better. Let's aim to finish this project and actually build up a decent record for this team. I think we haven't delivered in the last 4 semesters, and it's about time we do something about it. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Also, once again I apologize for the length of this email, but this will be the longest one for this semester (hopefully). See you guys on Friday! Cheers, Rahul [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/RVyoygllRuS2gJPs1bt-q5ERhMwYKoaVWh8Y74l9X…]<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UgIqMJNdNWfSVrHCFNJ7Yky3W-6QVzZOUkn…> PIGS - 01/19 (Week 01)<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UgIqMJNdNWfSVrHCFNJ7Yky3W-6QVzZOUkn…> docs.google.com 1 PIGS - 01/26 (Week 02) INDIA - Purdue University<https://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/india/> epics.ecn.purdue.edu Indian Institue of Technology, Delhi is one of India's finest institute for higher education founded by H.R.H. Prince Philips, Duke of Edinburgh, during his visit to ...

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Semester Timeline
by Rahul Maheswaran 21 Jan '18

21 Jan '18

Hey guys, I made the semester timeline. Take a look at it and let me know if there is anything I overlooked or you want to include. Cheers Rahul

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Part-time job opportunity in EPICS lab for undergraduate student
by Martinez, Jorge L 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

The EPICS lab has an a vacancy to fill immediately. The job entails general housekeeping, organization, and ordering materials for the lab areas. The ideal candidate: * Is available for work on Saturdays and Sundays (10 hours per week). * Would have participated in EPICS for 3 semesters or more. * Is interested in working more than one semester. * Is proficient operating the tools in the Design Build Lab (ARMS B103) and/or the Electrical and Electronics Design Lab (ARMS 1098). * Comes recommended by his/her advisor or TA. Students interested in the job, please send a resume and reference to Jorge Martinez. Thanks, Jorge Martinez EPICS Lab Manager Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering - Room 1210 Purdue University 701 West Stadium Ave West Lafayette, IN 47907 +1 765 494 0629 +1 574 214 9450 (mobile) mart1419(a)purdue.edu<mailto:mart1419@purdue.edu> https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS

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EPICS Week 2 Announcements
by Pierce, Andrew L 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

Important EPICS Week 2 Announcements ________________________________ Design Storm – Invite your friends. It’s not too late to Register! This competition, open to all Purdue students, will challenge teams of up to 5 students to create concepts and prototypes for cooking, pumping water, storing food and medicine, and providing communications in the wake of a major natural disaster. These concepts will be further developed throughout the semester by the new Natural Disaster Preparedness EPICS team. Three PDHs will be awarded to all participating EPICS students and prizes will be award to the best designs in several categories. Register at http://tinyurl.com/designstorm ________________________________ Student Service Learning Grants - Due Feb 7 Purdue’s Office of Engagement provides grants to students or student organizations for work on community service learning projects. This program’s goal is to expand the community involvement of Purdue students in partnership with communities, nonprofit agencies, schools, and governmental bodies. Both the application and guidelines for the Student Grant Program for Community Service/Service Learning Projects can be found online: https://slg.engagement.purdue.edu ________________________________ Entrepreneurship Series - Starts Tomorrow Wednesday Jan 17. Dr. Nathalie Duval Couetil of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program will kickoff the series, introducing basic concepts of entrepreneurship and resources available to students at Purdue. Register in MyEPICS. ________________________________ Required PDHs for First-Semester EPICS Students First time EPICS students are required to complete five PDHs that teach the basics of the design process. The first two should be done by the end of this week. 1. Intro to EPICS – Should be completed before your first lab. Watch the YouTube playlist<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc0ibrJx9X0nupwJAyql2G1nJySiF0k-3> and submit attendance in MyEPICS. 2. Wallet Exercise – There are two options to complete the wallet exercise. o You can attend any one of several in-person sessions hosted this week by the EPICS TAs. Find the schedule and register in MyEPICS<https://engineering.purdue.edu/MyEpics>. o If you cannot attend, you can do the make-up Gift Giving activity<https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/purdue/individual-documents/profession…>. ________________________________ Shell Scholarship Opportunities See attached flyer for details on how to apply for two scholarship opportunities from Shell. Open to undergrads in Engineering or Geoscience.[cid:4B02E4D0-25DF-44F7-86F6-9C9AB11AEEF9] ________________________________ Purdue Society of Professional Engineers - Volunteers Needed Every year PSPE hosts MATHCOUNTS, a nationwide middle school mathematics competition, at Purdue. This year the competition will take place on February 3rd, 2018, and we need approximately 60 volunteers. The volunteer work primarily consists of scoring the math tests and helping us determine winners for the contest. Sign up at https://goo.gl/forms/UkA0VH8T2hLfbOsZ2 ________________________________ Andrew Pierce EPICS Academic Administrator Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering – Room 1209 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Email: pierce1(a)purdue.edu<mailto:pierce1@purdue.edu> Phone: (765) 414-2107 http://www.purdue.edu/epics

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