Category Archives: Projects

Tom DeVito 3.12.2012

Start 9:30

  • I was missing the decoupling capacitors between the two amps.
  • I forgot that the SVR line needs to be grounded with a capacitor.
  • Reoriented the chips to be vertical.  Its much easier to tell if they are wired right.
  • Traced the connection.  It looks like everything is in there now.

End 5:30

Mike 3.12.2012

  • Did one final proof read of my quickstart guide before burning it to CD
  • Watched an interesting video on software development concepts
  • Looking in to fully integrating Visibility with PKI to remove the log in screens
    • Technically it is pretty straightforward to grab the user’s cert and get their SID and userDN
    • The hard part is the migration from the current user tables (one for PPM and one for Visibility) to using userDNs and linking permissions, etc.
    • The easiest thing may be to add a new column to the database, userDN, and when they log in, if userDN is null, set it and use it for look ups in the future.  All users would be created the same way as they are now then log in once and use PKI forever after.
  • Loaded Dong’s updates on my CD as well
  • I will head to fort this afternoon and deploy the following:
    • Quickstart HTML
    • Update to PPA HTML
    • Update to PPA help button
    • Update to VisibilityScripting script engine which will resolve some issues regarding packet too large errors
  • I will also do the normal backups
  • Will create the final table and view for the demo tomorrow: the historic look at project statuses
  • Hopefully will be able to meet with Sherri and show her the view

Phil 3.12.12

8:00 – 1:00 FP

  • DST == sleeeeeeepy
  • Class from 10:00 – 12:00
  • Going to start converting the hand to the new framework. I need to put some of these parts in a library.
  • Cool thing for the day: http://vimeo.com/36579366

1:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Demo prep. Need to build a spreadsheet that has projects and timelines on them. Have a “most recent issue” column. Maybe a “number of times underbudget”  and “number of times late” columns as well
  • The demo is now tomorrow at 2:00, though Dukes will not be there. So it looks like we will have an additional meeting/demo.
  • Spent some time walking Sherry P through VISIBILITY and created an account for her on fgmdev Viztool

Tom DeVito 3.9.2012

Start 11:00

  • Fixed a problem with the pre-amp circuits where I had the pins connected backwards.
  • Fixed some minor errors.  There were some spots that the bottom traces were inadvertently attached to the top by a through hole.
  • wiring up the test to make sure the power supply will work.

End: 6:00

 

Mike 3.9.2012

  • Usual backups this morning.  The databases suddenly became a lot smaller, I’m not sure why.  It is 60% the size it was 2 days ago but the project list seemed the right length and neither Tangie or Chrinstina mentioned anything.
  • Dong stopped by and we fixed the packet size issue and tested it.
  • Testing our trending capabilities with some fake data.
  • Finished the PPA quick start guide and exported it to HTML and DOC to bring inside

Phil 3.9.12

8:00 – FP

  • Chasing down why the refresh rate drops after using glGetQueryObjectiv(drawQuery, GL_QUERY_RESULT, &result);
    • Adding a check to test that the result is available before pulling it.
    • Changed the code so that the hit test is only called once per mouse click. Not sure why that would fix it, but I’m not complaining.
    • Cleaned up and working. Example code for how to do non-fixed pipeline picking in OpenGL shown below:
// Code to show how to use object queries to get picking behavior. For this code to work,
// You'll need to add your preferred rendering framework. This code was pulled from an
// FLTK framework I've been building for data visualization

// Class-wide global variables here for the sake of a compact file
// Classes that are not part of the OpenGl library are from the OpenGl SuperBible,
// which I highly reccomend: http://www.starstonesoftware.com/OpenGL/

GLMatrixStack modelViewMatrix;
GLMatrixStack projectionMatrix;
GLFrustum viewFrustum;
bool isPicking;

// Constructor. Set up picking and the projection and model matrices
PickingExample::PickingExample(int x,int y,int w,int h,const char *l)
: Fl_Gl_Window(x,y,w,h,l)
{
	isPicking = false;
	pickQueryResult = READY;
	glGenQueries(1, &pickQueryID);
	if(pickQueryID == 0){
		pickQueryResult = PICK_ERROR;
	}

	viewFrustum.SetPerspective(45.0f, (float)screenWidth/(float)screenHeight, 0.5f, 1000.0f);
	projectionMatrix.LoadMatrix(viewFrustum.GetProjectionMatrix());
	modelViewMatrix.LoadIdentity();
}

// A slightly modified version of the original gluPickMatrix, taken from:
// http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/projects/ogl-sample/main/gfx/lib/glu/libutil/project.c?rev=1.4;content-type=text%2Fplain
void PickingExample::setPickMatrix(GLdouble x, GLdouble y, GLdouble deltax, GLdouble deltay, GLint viewport[4])
{
	if (deltax <= 0 || deltay <= 0) {
		return;
	}

	projectionMatrix.LoadIdentity();

	/* Translate and scale the picked region to the entire window */
	GLfloat dx = (float)((viewport[2] - 2 * (x - viewport[0])) / deltax);
	GLfloat dy = (float)((viewport[3] - 2 * (y - viewport[1])) / deltay);
	projectionMatrix.Translate(dx, dy, 0);
	projectionMatrix.Scale((float)(viewport[2] / deltax), (float)(viewport[3] / deltay), 1.0);

	projectionMatrix.MultMatrix(viewFrustum.GetProjectionMatrix());
}

// the main drawing method. In this case, only drawing for picking is done, though it would 
// be easy enough to glClear() afther the picking code, and draw everything  over again with 
// a normal perspective
void PickingExample::draw() {
	GLint result;
	GLint viewport[4];
	glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT,viewport);

	glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
	modelViewMatrix.PushMatrix();

		// Have some Euler angle rotations and translations just to show how
		// setPickMatrix() doesn't care about eye or model position

		// global eye transformations
		modelViewMatrix.Rotate(eyeOrient[1], 0, 1, 0);
		modelViewMatrix.Rotate(eyeOrient[0], 1, 0, 0);
		modelViewMatrix.Translate(eyePos[0], eyePos[1], eyePos[2]);

		// global world transformations
		modelViewMatrix.Translate(worldPos[0], worldPos[1], worldPos[2]);
		modelViewMatrix.Rotate(worldOrient[0], 1, 0, 0);
		modelViewMatrix.Rotate(worldOrient[1], 0, 1, 0);

		// set up picking
		if(isPicking && (pickQueryResult != PICK_ERROR))
			projectionMatrix.PushMatrix();
				// set the projection matrix so that it's just looking at a (in this case) 10x10 pixel area
				// near the cursor. This method (shown above)
				setPickMatrix(mouseX,viewport[3]-mouseY,10,10,viewport);

				// for each item that you want to test, bracket it with a glBeginQuery()/glEndQuery()
				// You'll need a unique pickQueryID for each model
				glBeginQuery(GL_ANY_SAMPLES_PASSED, pickQueryID);

					// render your model associated with pickQueryID here. It is assumed that
					// the projection matrix and the model matrix will be handled by your shader(s)

				// finish the query for this particular model
				glEndQuery(GL_ANY_SAMPLES_PASSED);

			projectionMatrix.PopMatrix();

			// For each item that you queried above, see if at least one pixel was drawn
			// Again, you'll need a unique pickQueryID for each model
			glGetQueryObjectiv(pickQueryID, GL_QUERY_RESULT, &result);
			if(result)
				printf("hitn");
			else
				printf("missn");

			isPicking = false;
		}
	modelViewMatrix.PopMatrix();
}

Mike 3.8.2012

  • Fixed the excel export issue this morning at site
  • Briefing with Jim Griffe and other this morning about the Vis Tool, preparing for Colonel Dukes demo
    • We need to prepare a slide that illustrates how to “examine the historical performance” of a project
    • A short and sweet quickstart guide for PPA would be nice as well
  • Working on a quick start guide for PPA

Phil 3.8.12

7:30 – 11:00 VISIBILITY

  • Demo prep. See Mike’s notes for more detail

11:00 – 4:00 FP

  • Now that I have the pick matrix worked out, I’m going to see how to ask the pipeline if any pixels have been drawn. Also need to see how to prevent the test drawing from going to the render buffer
  • Generating query indices and deleting them in cleanup()
  • Added a pickRender()  and pickResult() method to DrawableObject
  • Picking works, but seems to slow down the display. Also, GL_QUERY_RESULT_AVAILABLE always returns zero, even if there is a result. And just to make things a little weirder, the call glGetQueryObjectiv(drawQuery, GL_QUERY_RESULT_AVAILABLE, &result) does not slow down the display, but the following almost identical call glGetQueryObjectiv(drawQuery, GL_QUERY_RESULT, &result) does. No ideas about this right now.

 

Here’s the code in question

static enum TRANSFORM_MODE{UNAVAILABLE, HIT, MISS};
TRANSFORM_MODE pickResult(){
	GLint result;

	glGetQueryObjectiv(drawQuery, GL_QUERY_RESULT_AVAILABLE, &result);
	if(result == 0)
		return UNAVAILABLE; // always returns this

	glGetQueryObjectiv(drawQuery, GL_QUERY_RESULT, &result); // slows down rendering once called.
	if(result)
		return HIT;
	else
		return MISS;
};

Tom DeVito 3.7.2012

Start: 10:00

  • Added voltage regulator circuit to the schematic.
  • I couldn’t do the amps circuit one sided so I had to add the bottom layer.
  • The I2C rheostats have two jumpers to select addresses.
  • Realized that the circuits are going to be bigger then their footprint because of the mounting board.  Added space so this should be okay.
  • I still have to work out a couple things with the amps but I am almost done.  Once I am done I will test the circuit using the power adapter as a power supply to make sure it works and double check everything before ordering.

End: 6:00

Dong Shin 03.07.2012

  • prepping for demo and found some problems
    • Project Assistant Tutorial button not very button-like – fixed
    • need to take a look at ProjectAssistant.html inside to correct Flash Player download problem and eliminate auto-resize/scroll issues
    • max_allowed_packet error occurred – need to modify MySQL ini file to allow more than 1M
    • xml file creation/writing skips when max_allowed_packet error occurs. moved the code outside of the try-catch block.
  • Mavenized ResizeableControls and modified ProjectAssistant to use it instead of local reference.

Mike 3.7.2012

  • Regular morning backups
  • Imported a new visibility scripting that writes to a file instead of a servlet
  • Ran the scripts on the current PPM data and published them to the data navigator
  • Worked with Phil and Dong to create several slides for tomorrow’s predemo
  • We ran in to an error when trying to load saved views, it was resolved when I closed IE and reopened it.  We believe it has to do with trying to load a table that was created after logging in.
  • Resolved the excel export error

Phil 3.7.12

8:00 – 12:00 visibility

  • Spent the morning putting together a demo walkthrough for tomorrow. We build an ‘enhanced’ data set that would support a lot of queries and started to use it to prepare a slideshow. Got through two slides until we discovered that slides weren’t loading properly.
  • The help for Project Assistant is a bit overwhelming. There needs to be some kind of overview and quickstart.
  • There are some issues on Project Assistant that need to be worked.
    • The help on the main screen and the dialog aren’t the same, and don’t look like buttons.
    • The app does not resize when the browser window resizes. It holds onto it’s original size, regardless.
  • Data Navigator’s ‘browser tab title’ is showing up as ‘#’ again.
  • It is possible to save two desktops with identical names

12:00 – 5:30FP

  • My FB account got hacked! Had to spend some time changing passwords and telling people to ignore my ‘hi ERROR!’ message. No idea how that could have happened…
  • Got the projection matrix set up for picking. Here’s how you do it:
void Gl_ShaderWindow::setPickMatrix(GLdouble x, GLdouble y, GLdouble deltax, GLdouble deltay, GLint viewport[4])
 {
	projectionMatrix.PushMatrix();
	if (deltax <= 0 || deltay <= 0) {
 		return;
 	}
	projectionMatrix.LoadIdentity();
	/* Translate and scale the picked region to the entire window */
 	projectionMatrix.Translate((viewport[2] - 2 * (x - viewport[0])) / deltax, (viewport[3] - 2 * (y - viewport[1])) / deltay, 0);
 	projectionMatrix.Scale(viewport[2] / deltax, viewport[3] / deltay, 1.0);
	projectionMatrix.MultMatrix(viewFrustum.GetProjectionMatrix());
 }

 

Tom DeVito 3.6.2012

Start: 10:00

  • Took me a while to figure out where the power jack footprint was in the pad2pad software.  I ended up having to drag it in from the folder as I couldn’t find where it was in the UI.
  • Apparently there are two types of power jacks.  I have to make sure we get the one where the center pin is positive.  Some have negative pins
  • Did an experiment with testing currents of both the power supply and our AC adapters.  i = V/R and the resistance formulas seems like a simple enough equations but somehow I missed the concept behind it.  Basically current is more like a pull caused by the lack of resistance.  The load resistor is what pulls current into the loop.  This could technically be anywhere in the circuit but the placement can have a great affect on what you are trying to do.  In the case of my test circuit, this resistor is right before the LED in order to protect it from getting too much current.  If I branch off from the node where the positive terminal of this resistor starts and add another circuit in parallel, this does not change the properties of the loop with the LED in it but makes the current pulled by the entire circuit with the new branch increase.
  • A key concept I keep forgetting is that current flows from negative to positive.  This means that a load resistor on the positive side of a circuit is  not really preventing power from going in, but pulling it from the negative side in.
  • Started drawing the circuit for the reheostats and the pre-amps.

End: 6:00