Project Information
Project Description: https://green-scientist.com/projects/1-meter-of-pi-2pi-microgravity-garden/
1 Meter of Pi Project Blog: 1 Meter of Pi
Github repo: https://github.com/kurama007/1MeterOfPi
Introduction
It is already No 9 blog post and time goes by very quickly. It is almost the end of the year 2020. Hope everyone is safe and healthy.
As this 1 meter of pi project is near the end, I would like to make this project useful for other people. Our customers can be astronauts, researchers , and engineers like NASA. They may not necessarily comprehend the software details, so I made a GUI for this project.
Concept Design
I usually would like to start a rough concept design before implementations. The GUI is built with PyQt5, which is a python package used for GUI frameworks.
Prototype Design
So far, 1 Meter of Pi Application is being developed on Mac OS. I am using PyQt5 as the GUI framework. PyQt has many good features. I finished the initial layout design and the snapshot is here!
The GUI shows real time information. It will have a few features like
1. take measurements and save the data into a text file for data analysis.
2. Display live data over time
2.1 Temperature
2.2 Humidity
3. Show activity logs
3.1 Show useful log data
Using PyQt5 grid system, the GUI content is added by the addWidget function.
Next, I would like to display the data from the Pimoroni enviro module.
The Pimoroni can measure a few environmental conditions. Here is a list of parameters to be implemented next time!
