No progress reports, as of 6:15 pm:
Greg Brown
Chris Goodrum
Mike Minori
Rich Bails
Note: I'm very very sorry if you sent me a stat report
and I missed it -- please remail! I accidently
erased all of my email just a second ago (aghghhghg!)
thanks!
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Nancy Babiarz
1) Progress Reports 30 min
3) Meetings, Attend 1 h
8) Doc, Plan 1.5 h
Mostly, just worked on the project plan revisions.
Haven't had a chance to look at design doc yet.
Didn't spend enough time doing small things
(ie talking to spencer about MT presentation)
to really log...
No problems.
plans:
Start a Video - Idea Notebook.
Re-do schedule.
Talk to Chris about the web stuff.
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Prabhath
1) Hours spent on each activity
- Progress reports <- about 20 minutes
- Meetings Attend <- 1 hours (Friday meeting)
- Research <- 2 hours , Delphi Book, Examining old code
- Code Basic - Pc <- 7 hours (3 sunday, 1 Tuesday, 3 Wednesday)
2) Any problems you have encountered. This is important, as the
people at the meetings will hopefully be helping you get solutions!
- No real problem,s just should have checked about equipment ahead
of time, it seemed we had to hunt for each thing because I didnt
check about equipment before everyone left.
3) Plans for next week.
- Thursday (today) -> Test our positioning app, debug it
- Friday(and Thursday) -> Look over design, make comments
- Saturday - Tuesday -> Work on adding serial communications, possibly
according to design doc drafts
- Wednesday -> Have a finsihed Analysis document.
- Thursday -> Decide how to approach adding more functionality, i.e,
work with old cyberguide, etc.
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Derek:
Progress Report for April 11-18
4/11 - Meeting with design group to discuss high level functionality
of Cyberguide. Started to assign function for objects.
2.5 hours
4/12 - Status meeting with entire Cyberguide Group.
1 hour
4/14 - Meeting with design group to continue discusing high level
functionality. Also discussed scenarios that a user may have
when using Cyberguide. Also discussed the way the map will be
represented in Cyberguide.
3 hours
4/15 - Meeting with designteam to discuss low level communication of
Cyberguide. Also discussed scenarios that a user may have.
2 hours
4/16 - Meeting with design team to finalize high level design and discuss
communication between objects. Discussed design implications
of using a certain platform, such as limitations of the hardware
and functionality of a certain platform.
Began to write rough draft of the design document.
4 hours
4/17 - Finished writing the rough draft.
3.5 hours
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Jason
Analysis - 11 hours
o Found design specifications of the IR transceiver off Apple Newton site
o Range: 8 cm - 1 meter (at 19.2 kbps)
o Emission directional cone +/- 13 degrees
o Receive directional cone +/- 13 degrees
o Tested design specifications of the IR transceivers between two Newton
120's.
o Practical range is about 1 meter. One Newton (Screwdriver) transmits
and receives better than the other (Highball).
o Emission and receive cones is about the same as the specs.
o Tested IR communication between the two Newton 120's
o The first way was using a sample communication program. This
program came with source code, but requires that there be a receiving
side
o Tried two similar programs, typeomatica and beamomatica, which
transmit IR without having to have an established receiver. This
seems to be more of what we need. However, no source code was
available.
o Found program called Newtl which uses Slurpee. It allows connections to
UNIX boxes (several OS's, including Sun Solaris 2.5 / Sun SPARCstation.
Source code is available to check. This may be useful when communicating
from Newton to Unix box.
Problems
o Have not located Zip drive yet.
o No success with creating a prototype of IR communications between two
Newton 120's without establishing a formal connection yet.
Future plans
o Backup the Delphi files and Santana files as soon as I locate the ZIP
drive
o Am reading more on Newton 2.0 OS and communications. I recently found
a lot of documentation for it.
o Write a NTK script to setup an IR communications link between two
Newton 120's without having to establish the receiver (in other words,
do what beamomatica and typeomatica do)