IT Seminar - Day 3 - Finland
The final day was dedicated to Finland and their workshop. They started off their day with a presentation of what we would be working with : a mini Arduino computer, a temperature and pressure sensor and a GPS antenna and locator.
We then split into small groups usually consisting of 1 Finnish, 1 Spanish and 1 Swiss student. I ended up working with Laura and Werneri. We were first showed how the assembled and working product worked, by printing on a small LCD screen the current latitude and longitude, the number of connected satellites, the temperature and current air pressure.
And then Werneri disassembled everything.
Using a diagram and Werneri’s explanations, Laura and I managed to reconnect all the cables correctly and reassemble everything.
The next step happened in the Arduino IDE where we had to look at the pre-existing C++ code and figure out how to print information to the LCD screen. After successfully printing our text to the screen we looked at the rest of the code and understood how the different pre-existing libraries were used to connect to satellites and get information from those and from the onboard sensor.
The final step was to take our creations with us and track down Heikki, the Finnish teacher, who had shared his latitude and longitude with us. Sadly our creation lost its Wi-Fi connection even though it had worked perfectly a few minutes ago, and couldn’t boot properly. This meant we had to follow the rest of the groups and we quickly located and brought Heikki back.
After a lunch break we continued working on the same code but this time we created a Telegram bot who we could query and who would send information such as temperature and pressure back to us.