Raspberry Pi Senior Project

For my senior project, I decided to challenge myself by creating a computer program with the coding language Python. The main challenge presented in this project was that I had no previous coding experience and would have to essentially learn Python from scratch. After a period of research and with the help and guidance of several real-life engineers and Mr. Logsdon (the ECP advisor). I made my ultimate goal to create a digital home assistant using a Raspberry Pi. Following the steps of the engineering process, my problem was again that I still only had a very basic knowledge of computer programming. The research faze of my process constituted the majority of my project. In order to research Python coding, I enrolled myself in an online Python course recommended to me by my mentor. I was also able to …show more content…
Computer Science Principles class. In this project, I wrote about how companies like Google and Amazon are making their digital home assistant software available to programmers, so that they can make their own digital home assistant. I settled on the software provided by Google, as it seemed simpler to integrate into my Raspberry Pi. After purchasing all of the necessary materials for my project, I created a Google creator account and registered my device with Google. Registering my Raspberry Pi with Google was perhaps more challenging than actually writing the code to operate my Raspberry Pi. After registering my Raspberry Pi and writing the necessary code for my digital home assistant, is when the greatest obstacle arose. Despite following all of the instructions provided by Google and several other online resources, when I ran the trial function on my Pi, the Pi was not recognized. After several retests, I completely rewrote my code for the Raspberry Pi. However, this was still not enough, and my Pi was still not recognized by Google when I ran the trial