As of midnight, 5/2/96, No status report received from:
Greg Brown
Derek Abiusi
Chris Goodrum
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Nancy Babiarz:
Activities
.50 Status Reports
.25 Meetings, Prep
1.0 Meetings, Attend
.25 Presentations, Prep
1.0 Doc, Analysis
1.5 Video
Problems:
- Video animation
- Video equipment, and connections to computers
- Lack of uniformity in progress reports, lateness
- Design - holding up implementation?
Plans:
- Begin finding out about video equiptment
- Find some way to do animations for video, if they
can indeed by merged with "regular" videotaping
- Slides for presentation (this weekend)
- Flesh out rough draft of video, begin talking to people
about roles, hopefully get something shot by the end
of the week.
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Michael Minori:
- meetings/coding 7hrs
- equipment web page 2hrs
Problems:
- Couldn't get Motorola tranceiver to communicate with PC boxes. (This
was eventually resolved.)
- There also seems to be a problem with the Motorola sensing the
remote control signal.
Plans:
- Work on database info retrieval.
- Maybe start communications.
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Prabhath Valiveti:
Hours spent on each activity
- Progress reports <- about 20 minutes
- Meetings Attend <- 20 (Friday meeting)
- Research <- 1 hour, looking up serial info
- Code Basic - Pc <- 7 hours (2 Thurs, 2 Mon, 3 Wed)
Problems:
Well, we got some positioning working, hopefully it will be totally
debugged by Fridays meeting
Plans
Friday - Sunday -> Begin communications, according to design doc, set
interface standard
Friday - Sunday -> Meet with Derek to get design inof. and get
him familiar with our project
Monday - Wednesday -> Monday, do presentation, rest of week
continute our communications, using database
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Status Report from Jason Hong for 5/3/96
Hours Description
0.1 Progress Reports
2 Code, Communications-Newton
Goals:
Try to get communications with Sun completed
Read and understand the C code provided by Austin and Chris Atkeson
Get together with Chris and Greg and look at Newton side implementation
Problems:
Haven't been able to get communication with Rich's devices yet
Maximum speed of Newton IR seems to be 19200 bps
Have changed Newton IR to send fixed size packets of 100 bytes
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Rich Bails
1 hour acquiring new IR containers
1 hour mounting IR unit in container
.5 hour testing IR with Jason Hong
.5 hour status meeting
.5 hour searching for 32-bit driver for external CD-Rom
.5 hour trying to install 32-bit driver on NT machine
.5 hour trying to get permission to upgrade NT machine
1 hour hacking together second IR unit
.5 hour acquiring C code from Chris Atkeson
.5 hour trying to locate Jason Hong for testing IR
.5 hour testing IR with Jason
.5 hour figuring schedule and trying to use turnin form
Goals for next week.
1. get a working testbed for evaluating Sharp IR units.
2. reinstall Windows NT on pc in OSL and try to get both WinNTK and
Delphi installed and working
3. Start looking at how to transition to doing positioning from a Sun
workstation for cyberguide.