DEVELOPMENT | Circleenix

FINANCIAL PLANNING

The budget for this project is around £100 since we could source most of the products from the university itself. Even though we will only pay around £20, we decided to keep money on the side in case any of the components were to get damaged during development.

Individual Component Prices -

Total cost: £20
Backup money: £80

Beneficial Costs for The Customer –

Because of our project's ability to be viewed from a website, this allows our target audience, which is bird watchers, to not have to go outside in extreme weather conditions because of the ability to view the successful pictures on the website from the comfort of their own home. Furthermore, to start out in bird watching, people spend huge amounts of money on equipment such as expensive cameras and with our product price is nothing compared to that, and it does the same thing.

Ongoing Costs/Sustainability:

The battery may need replacing if it runs out of charge or to reduce costs even further. We can add a rechargeable battery and use a charger to charge it every time it runs out of charge.

Furthermore, with our website, there might be ongoing costs with the hiring out of a server to place our website on.

Shows the costs that we will have for the initial development of the prototype for bird is the word.

Individual component prices for future bulk purchases as in the future we cannot hoard all our components from the university so we would have to buy the components and they will not be free and provided in the future. Delivery costs are not a problem as when buying in bulk delivery costs are negligible for us.

By analyzing the requirements and various other factors, we were able to calculate the amount of profit/loss we will predict to make each month. Our cash flow diagram shows the projected figures that will affect cash flow over the following 12 months.

- Balance Sheet

Our balance sheet shows our balance for 2021 upon the predictions we have made for financials.

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

- Hardware

Raspberry Pi – Needed to be the base component and computer of the project. Will be used to program motion detection and other components.

Motion Camera – This will be used to detecting movement and find endangered species and tracking environmental conditions in real-time.

Infrared Camera - Will be used to capturing harmful effects like wildfires in the environment, while also capturing camouflaged animals.

Led Light/Bulb – Will be used to translating whenever the device is on or off or to show if any errors are occurring with the device allowing for debugging and repair.

Microphone – This will be used to recording the sounds of different animals to further help differentiate them. While also help keep track of the current surroundings of the device.

Battery – Needed for power as the device will be portable and placed in wild environments. The battery will need to be long-lasting.

- Software

Raspberry Pi – Need access to raspberry pi software to program the physical raspberry pi and onboard components.

Microsoft Teams/Discord – These platforms will be used in order to communicate as a team and show progress in current work. Files can easily be shared across both platforms.

Python – The main language we will be using in order to code all functionality on this project device.

- Hardware Tinkercad design with components

- Storyboard

We designed a storyboard that shows what we plan for the device to do and how it will work with each step.

- Gantt Chart

We designed a Gantt chart to help us assess how long our project should take, determine the resources needed, plan the order in which we will complete tasks, and what member will do each task.

COMPONENT ASSEMBLING

We have fully assembled all the hardware components including the raspberry pi together. The camera will be attached to the motor to allow horizontal movement at 180 degrees. The PS4 joystick is used to test the functionality of the motor.

- Component Used

•Camera

•PIR Sensor

•Battery

•Led

•Raspberry Pi

•Motor

•PS4 Joystick

3D PRINTING

We created a 3D design of the case for the device using Tinkercad that we will later print. We made sure that the case is waterproof and for it to allow the camera to move and record at 180 degrees. Once printed we will paint it to make it camouflaged.

DEVICE PROGRAMMING

We programmed the raspberry pi with its operating system using Python. We programmed the camera to take a picture and the functionality of the motor, PIR sensor, and led.

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