Balance The Grid: A Tool to Educate About Solar Power
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
ME218A - Smart Product Design Fundamentals |
2018
Stanford, CA |
Balance The Grid! is an educational tool that teaches users about solar power and solar storage. It uses real data about solar energy and energy use cycles to challenge users to optimally direct solar energy directly to the grid or to solar storage centers. This game was designed and built in under two weeks.
Our project included:
A full project report can be found at balancethegrid.weebly.com. |
Skills Developed: state machines, integration of software modules, rapid prototyping, collaboration, communication, prioritizing project goals, version control
Greatest Failure: pushing to master. We were luckily able to retrieve files that I had accidentally overwritten with the push, and now I know about pull requests!
Greatest Moment: seeing all of the subsystems come together once the gameplay state machine was written. After working tirelessly for two weeks on lower level systems, it was amazing to see how nicely they all worked together!
Greatest Failure: pushing to master. We were luckily able to retrieve files that I had accidentally overwritten with the push, and now I know about pull requests!
Greatest Moment: seeing all of the subsystems come together once the gameplay state machine was written. After working tirelessly for two weeks on lower level systems, it was amazing to see how nicely they all worked together!