Reflection

As mentioned earlier in this Gallery post, this product was originally supposed to be something similar to the scoreboard tree- another device which displays related information through light. We decided to expand further on our goal of helping a community share resources and time while being environmentally friendly. So we created a compost bin that tracks the community's participation.

We had some trouble with the Particle's distance readings initially because of the measuring sequence we had implemented in our code. An intentional delay in our code interfered with the loop timing and skewed the timing between event publishing and tweet publishing. We learned how to solve this problem by eliminating the delay time and being more efficient with event publishing.