8:00 – 10:00 SR

• Backups
• Desk issues
• Looks like someone might be interested in Visibility pretty much out of the blue. We’ll see

10:00 – 5:00 FP

• Wired up the speakers to the old grip interface. Amp and speakers work nicely
• Now to work on the force moving the gripper.
• I also need to get the target force vector back so that I know how to move the target. Not looking forward to implementing friction…
• Hmm. Before I commit to doing it right, I’m wondering if I can look at the summed magnitude of the force vectors vs the magnitude of the summed force vectors. If the first is high and the second is low, then it means that the ball is being squeezed. Above a certain ratio, The target could simply be at the center of the sensor points.
• Assuming that the above will work, I need to do the following to targets
  • An awareness of a “floor” that provides either a limit to motion or an upward force once penetrated
  • An awareness of the forces being applied and the sources of the forces. Since these are spheres with given radius, the information to be tracked could be as simple as the center positions of the items
  • Gravity and mass?