Colin Ilas, Jr.

This week, I was able to pick up a Raspberry Pi along with a 7" touchscreen. This setup is better than using a monitor as it will be handheld and can be passed around. In addition, it allows us to program the GUI such that it should be used on a mobile device rather than a computer screen. We will work on getting the GUI to work on the Raspberry Pi, which can be seen below.

This week, we began working on multi-pod capability in the GUI. To do this, we implemented another section that allows us to pick between pods 1, 2, or 3, then select which destination station the user wants. Once the command is sent, each pod will obtain the direction and the specific pod will be sent to that specific station. In addition, I began looking into different ways we may be able to use the GUI. Because we ran into problems with the current server-mobile configuration, I believe using a secondary device dedicated to running the GUI would work the best. We would be able to use a Raspberry Pi running Linux to run our Python script and plug in a monitor so that the whole GUI can be seen when we present our project.