Weekly Updates

[2021-04-26] Lab 9 actually caught my eye as a security detection response code. The intrusion detection part of the lab was easily executed and the Qiskit went smoothly as well.

I began to flesh out my project proposal by analyzing the lessons and using them each for a bit of useful information, as outlined in the 'Project Proposal' page.

[2021-04-19] Many more graphs. Eventually I worked on the deliverable after all of the test graphs and in hindsight I should have seen if I could change the graph scales to enhance some of the more... compressed ones.

I finally decided to use the DMCA project to use as a proposal.

[2021-04-12] ThingSpeak portion of the lab was completed and I even tested a YouTube video being played during the testing. This effect is detailed in the graphs in the GitHub file for lab 7. The spike in CPU usage and plummet of available memory are predictable signs of a video being played by the tiny Pi. I had trouble in the second portion of the lab due to there being an overwhelming and unfamiliar interface when creating a JSON file. But once I got the key file and then transferred it to my Pi, the rest was easy. I began lab 8 and sift through the many lines of test graphs.

While most of my class time was spent working on the labs, I did flesh out some of my project ideas.

[2021-03-29] - Most of lab 5 was completed, including the mosquito pinging and the docker messaging relay. But in the terminal 3 section, my subscription client command would constantly say 'connection failed' and 'connection refused' unless I stopped the client.

[2021-03-22] - The rest of lab 4 was finished with only a few hurdles. Most prominently of the problems was when the Alexa 'memory game' did not correctly adjust to the new numbers game inputs. It would continually ask for a favorite color, and repeat an error after my response. I was able to set up the MariaDB server without any problems. Later I began to look at lab 5 and reviewing lesson 4 on project procedures/characteristics.

[2021-03-15] - Lab 4 seemed extensive due to the multiple parts, and I got halted when running the Django server. The MariaDB and Django installations were smooth step-by-step but I kept getting a server error when trying to run the server.

[2021-03-08] - I was able to finish lab 3 after clarification from the professor on my address issue. While it seemed to be difficult, I believe it was due to somehow a change in an address on my Pi.

[2021-02-21] Lab 2 lesson is incompletable because the semester is virtual and I do not have the lab tools. Instead, I have gone back and watched the professor demonstration of the lab procedure and followed that side-by-side even if I do not get the same results as my pi has no active connections.