I worked on this project as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Integrative Bio-Engineering Research (CIBER), a lab in SFU’s Faculty of Applied Sciences headed by Prof. Bozena Kaminska. The goal of the project was to develop a corrosion protection system using cathodic protection. It would measure soil conditions, calculate protection current and corrosion rate and supply protection voltage.
We forked an open-source project, DStat, that some researchers at University of Toronto had been developing. I worked on the GUI that would interface with the hardware module over serial USB.
Our fork grew considerably different from the original DStat as our requirements evolved. We soon realized the need to create a new program to better suit our needs. It needed to be very lightweight, efficient and reliable. The system consisted of three major components: software interface, firmware and hardware. I was responsible for the software interface which I implemented in Python with Tkinter.