dbrill/flythepi

Raspberry pi geolocated weather balloon

FlyThePi

Raspberry pi geolocated weather balloon

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Team Members	Github Names
Danny Brill	dbrill
Dan Bye	CaptainAtlas
Brian Hawthorne	Bhawth
Sarah Godine	sarahgodine
Lucy Wilkinson	lucywilkinson

Description: Our immediate sprint is to use geo-location paired with a RaspberryPi to create a device that can be located from anywhere. The goal of this immediate sprint is to create a device that would allow you locate items precious to you by simply pinging your Raspberry Pi. Our lofty goal, depending on how well we deal with the geo-location part of the process, is to also implement a measure of height above or below sea level along with a location. Finally, we'd install a modular camera to our Raspberry Pi and send it up into the Stratosphere (or higher!) attached to a weather balloon. Once, ascended our Pi will upload it's location as well as pictures to our website.

"You lose it; we find it" ~Immediate Sprint Vision Statement

"A view from the top" ~Lofty Goal Vision Statement

Motivation: Our project began with a collective passion for an education in what is possible when employing a Raspberry Pi. This passion was met with the solution to a fundamental problem, losing things sucks! If there were an easy way to attach lightweight technology to the things you cared about to ensure you never lost them again one would find a convenient solution to a common problem. As for our lofty goal, we wanted to press the boundaries of our geo-location by sending our Pi where no Pi has gone before. To that end we also that we could get some pretty awesome photography from way up there!

Risks:

• 1. Some members are unfamiliar with the architecture of Raspberry Pi's
• 2. Before this project group members were unfamiliar to one another; lack of certainty of group cohesiveness
• 3. Being that all of our schedules are individually based, meeting times have already proven to be difficult
• 4. Depending on weather conditions, launch protocols, and hardware expenses our lofty goal may prove to be out of reach

Risk Mitigations:

• 1. Team members unfamiliar with the intricacies of Raspberry Pi's have already begun referring to example projects and open sourced documentation to build a working level of understanding.
• 2. A general understanding of respect and responsbility should prove to mitigate this risk as well as a motiviation to succeed.
• 3. Team members will have to be fluid and compromise on certain other priorities (definitely sleep) to enable our vision.
• 4. Early preparation and research should prove to surface a viable launch day and the necessary legal procedures to launch a weather balloon. If hardware expenses are out of reach we will look for outside funding.

We're creating goals in a modular way so that we ensure a workable product regardless of unforseen difficulties*

-----------------------------------------Requirements------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*** (ID) User Requirements ***	Agile Sizing(1-5)
(0) User Interface	2.0
(1) Platform for UI	1.0

*** (ID) Functional Requirements ***	*** Agile Sizing(1-5)***
(2) Locating Raspberry Pi	4.5
(3) Human readable Information	2.0
(4) Relaying Location	2.0

*** (ID) Non-Functional Requirements ***	*** Agile Sizing(1-5)***
(5) Weather Balloon Acquire & Launch	2.0
(6) Retrieving Height of Balloon	2.0
(7) Taking & Uploading Pictures	3.0
(8) Creating Website as Platform for UI	4.0

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Methodology: We plan to use the Agile Methodology.

User Stories:

• As an outdoor enthusiast I want to be able to keep track of a location so that I can find my way back to camp.
• As a weather researcher I want a cheap, replaceable way to collect data so that I can collect data more often.
• As a soccer mom I want to be able to quickly find my keys so that I can pick up the team on time and in a good mood.

Project Tracking:

Github Issue Tracker and Milestones

• Software = Pivotal
• https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/1539463