So far...

Unfortunately, we haven't made as much progress on Lightbulb as we would have liked, due to the absence of one of our team members, Peter Hajas, and his hardware. There were some postal issues, so we were without our Arduino and RFID scanner until mid-March. When the hardware arrived, there were difficulties getting it to work as it had last semester, so we have decided to continue the project with a USB-based RFID scanner.

However, this has meant new drivers and reading software, so we are still currently in the transition phase that will get us back to where we were last semester with a working RFID scanner and daemon code.

We have also decided that it would be in the project's best interest to take a survey at several nearby retirement homes, so that we can talk to the target audience and get an idea of what they really want, since we as RPI students are very biased when it comes to technology. We have contacted several retirement communities and are working out details to meet with them either late this semester or early next semester.

We'll update again in a couple of weeks with our progress.

~ Aileen and Priti