Start: 12:00

• I either forgot to set my alarm or did 3 math problems in my sleep.  I guess I should up the difficulty on the math problems required to turn off my alarm.
• Wrote out a summary of how the software is supposed to work to help declutter my approach to getting it working.
• While writing this I have decided that starting tomorrow, I will write out my goals for the day on the blog, before I start working.  Too often do I jump between things and end up confusing myself.  A checklist of goals should help a lot.
• Worked on the default simulation.  This is the same simulation I have been using but now it has to run on the PC side and send the collision data back to the arduino.
• Decided to make collision an independent struct so that magnitude and type can be bundled together.  Made changes to accommodate for this in the simulation, sound controller, and main data dictionary stuff.

End: 6:00

Start: 10:00

• Added a temporary simulation class to act as a placeholder til we have a real one.  This could also be used to process the inputs and outputs for the animation.
• Trying to figure out the best way to manipulate the data.  Currently what I have is a call to recieveData, which imports the data from the buffer into the appropriate data dictionary entries.  Then I run the simulation so that the data gets updated as needed, it also grabs user inputs.  After that it sends the data to the arduino.  I am starting to think that maybe I should seperate the status struct into two parts so that the arduino sensor data doesn’t get overwritten when the pc sends data.
• Made sensorData independent from the state struct so it didn’t get overwritten when the comes back from the pc with changes.
• Took name out of the state.  If I need the name for the output, I can get it from the dd entry name.
• Fixed collision processing in the SoundController class.  The collision processor accepts integers between 0-900.  These values can be negative because it takes the absolute value of the collision data.
• Decided to make a simulation base class which all simulations will inherit from, instead of the placeholder I started.  Some common variables all simulations will share is max position, scaling factor, deadzone,  sensorData input, output collisions.

End: 6:00

Start: 10:00

• I was sick on Friday so I am continuing the work started on thursday.
• Added methods for getting the state and command struct pointers
• Added a data dictionary entry for each fingers state and command struct
• Making changes to the pc side to accommodate the new structs.

end: 6:00

Start 12:00

• Still working on changing over to using the sound controllers as well as switching from test data for the interface to actual data.
• Wrote out the flow to help torubleshoot
• fixed commands on PC side to reflect changes on the arduino side.

end 6:00

Start:  10:00

• Dong told me that one of the fingers was making a lot of noise when he came in and was getting hot.  When I powered it back up, it doesn’t seem to have any problems.  I’ll make sure teh power is off when I leave from now on
• Made some changes to the PC side to work with the new SoundController state struct
• Need to finish troubleshooting.  I am pretty close to having everything working.

End: 6:00

Start: 3:00

• Continued to work on troubleshooting the sound controller class

End: 6:00