Week 2

This week's goal was to create a project proposal, with concrete information about our idea. We made just adjustments to our initial idea and have started the planning process. We decided to make a box with various sensors that can be switched out and the box can be mounted to walls or attached to drones to test air quality. In the proposal, we planned out the budget, resources, and project timeline. We also plan to devise a way to get the recorded data to be communicated with the user either through light display, numerical display, graphical display, or a beeping indication.

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