Category Archives: Projects

Dong Shin 10.14.11

  • working at home
  • PPM
    • made font size bigger (12)
    • fixed endpoint errors not getting to MySQLIf (timing)
    • find overdue budget centers
      • select *, ‘overdue’ as status from obligations_outlays
        where (year + year_count) = 2013 and isnull(month_1)
        and funding_id in
        (select uid from budget_centers where project_id = 99)
        group by funding_id
    • find overdue years for the budget center
      • select *, ‘overdue’ as status from obligations_outlays
        where (year + year_count) = 2013 and isnull(month_1)
        and funding_id = 181
        group by year

Tom DeVito 10.13.2011

start: 9:00am

  • Got the fifth finger to work.  At first I thought it was the rheostat then I thought it was the amplifier.  Turns out the amplifiers power wasn’t connected properly.  It was hard to tell because theres two grounding capacitors on the power line so it looked like it was connected.
  • Mounted one rheostat and 1 amplifier to break to break out boards to try to resolve the problem above.  These will probably come in handy later.
  • Working out the issue with panning the channels so each finger can have individual sound.
  • pictures:

If I reviewed the pictures yesterday I might have seen that the amplifier had no power.

End: 5:00pm

Phil 10.13.11

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Attempted to deploy Dong’s PPM Widget.
    • It launches in IE, but not in Firefox. Need to bring in debug players
    • There is an endpoint problem. Took screenshots for Dong to peruse
    • Meeting with Tangi
    • Impromptu meeting with Bill
  • Renewing my ACM membership
  • Submitting reimbursement for patent application fees
  • More work with Mike’s Google interface.

Tom DeVito 10.12.2011

Start: 9:00am

  • Finished the diagnostic sketch
  • Had lots of trouble with the addressing of the i2c rheostats.  I forgot that the arduino drops the left most bit because it automatically takes care of the read/write bit.  I found my blog entry which reminded me.
  • the registers sub address are 0x80 or 0x00.
  • The secondary register circuitry was wrong.  It was attached on the wiper side instead of the power side.
  • reordered the speaker wires so its easier to tell which amplifier knob goes to which finger.
  • Got 4 fingers working.  The last one is not getting the proper voltage rating from the control voltage divider.
  • currently each midi is producing a constant tone for testing purposes on both left and right.  Once I get the left and right to play independently I can experiment with pitch bend and different tones per finger.

end: 5:00pm

Dong Shin 10.12.2011

  • PPM Widgets
    • added Project status
    • updated FinancialDataView to have the fields from Project, added FinancialDataViewStatus for project status
    • added query to retrieve the status of the project (may need fine tuning, takes about 4 seconds to retrieve the data)
    • burned the software to test on-site
    • working on Budget Centers, Years, Year Counts for overdue projects
      • select b.`uid` AS `uid`,
        b.`project_id` AS `project_id`,
        `appropriations`.`status` AS `status`,
        ‘complete’ as project_status,
        O_type, o_year, o_year_count, o_uid, o_month_1
        from `budget_centers` b
        left join `appropriations` on
        b.`appropriation` = `appropriations`.`type`
        left join __view_financial_data_view
        on project_id = p_uid and b.uid = c_uid
        where p_uid = 100 and o_year = 2012 and o_year_count = 1
        and ISNULL(o_month_1)
        and uid not in (
        select b.`uid` AS `uid`
        from `budget_centers` b
        left join `appropriations` on
        b.`appropriation` = `appropriations`.`type`
        left join __view_financial_data_view
        on project_id = p_uid and b.uid = c_uid
        where p_uid = 100 and o_year = 2012 and o_year_count = 1
        and NOT ISNULL(o_month_1)
        GROUP BY uid)
        GROUP BY uid
        UNION

        select b.`uid` AS `uid`,
        b.`project_id` AS `project_id`,
        `appropriations`.`status` AS `status`,
        ‘overdue’ as project_status,
        O_type, o_year, o_year_count, o_uid, o_month_1
        from `budget_centers` b
        left join `appropriations` on
        b.`appropriation` = `appropriations`.`type`
        left join __view_financial_data_view
        on project_id = p_uid and b.uid = c_uid
        where p_uid = 100 and o_year = 2012 and o_year_count = 1
        and NOT ISNULL(o_month_1)
        GROUP BY uid

Tom DeVito 10.11.2011

Start: 9:00am

  • The thumb sensor was not working.  I think the heat from the soldering broke the contacts attached to the wiring on the sensor.
  • Started a diagnostics sketch which helps test the individual components by making it easy to activate and deactivate the parts.  This sketch will come in handy for diagnosing issues in the future as well as easy experimenting of change how the amps and sounds ramp up and down to get a more natural feel.
  • This sketch is pretty much done but there are a couple of bugs that need to be worked out.  This should be working early tomorrow so hopefully I will be able to test everything tomorrow so the main sketch will work.
  • Took a bunch of pictures with my phone.  Going to look through them and e-mail the good ones to myself.  They will be up tomorrow morning.

end: 5:00pm

Dong Shin 10.11.2011

  • created FinancialDataDataGridSkin and modified FinancialDataItemRenderer
    • hover highlight and selection removed for non-editable row
    • backGround color added for editable row
    • MX + Spark setting in Flex Build Path not allowing spark theme? This doesn’t allow Spark DataGrid to use alternatingRowColors property, ended up modifying FinancialDataItemRenderer instead of using the skin class
  • cleaning up UI
  • create view for budget_centers and appropriations joined
    • CREATE ALGORITHM = UNDEFINED VIEW `__view_budget_center` AS SELECT budget_centers . * , appropriations.duration, appropriations.status
      FROM `budget_centers`
      LEFT JOIN appropriations ON budget_centers.appropriation = appropriations.type

Tom De Vito 10.7.2011

start: 9:00

  • Powered everything up.  No smoke
  • Sensors working but no sounds coming out on “contact.”
  • Attached headphones and found that the midi was working properly so it is probably a problem with the amplifier.
  • Eventually got to a point where the peak light on the large amplifiers was lighting up.  Looked at the speakers and found out I used the wrong wires on one end.
  • Once fixed sound worked.  Although the vibration goes through the whole unit, the finger that the speakers has strong enough vibrations that you don’t notice the other fingers vibrating as much.
  • Fixed the analog inputs so 0 is the thumb and 4 is the pinky.
  • Got the second finger working on that rheostat.  Currently both fingers are playing the same sound because the pan functions not working right.  Also there’s a direct connection to the i2c controller so I am still not sure if the bus will work properly.
  • Forgot my phone today so pictures will be included on Mondays entry.
  • All testing has been done using my old sketch so I still have to work out the problem with the simulation to get all the fingers working at the same time.

end 6:00

Tom DeVito 10.6.2011

Start: 9:00am

  • Finished wiring all the components together.
  • Grouped up and routed the wires so it is more obvious where wires go if they get disconnected as well as reduce clutter.
  • Not sure if the i2c bus will work as I currently have it.  most examples ave all the circuits in series wit a pull up resistor after each one.  I currently have them in parallel so we will see.
  • Added in the other 4 fingers to the executive sketch as well as added functions using the commgr class, for sending data to the PC so I can ave a console tat sows all the fingers data.

End: 6:00pm

Dong Shin 10.06.11

  • Meeting with Tangie at Fort and some enhancements requested
    • make fonts bigger
    • distinguishable header info in Financial Status Data. It should be each row of the project’s budget data and selectable/changeable
    • PM Actual Outlays link to the Financial Data
    • Possible meetings on Mon/Thu mornings
  • Continue working on PPM Widgets
    • basic monthly display is done
    • working on query to get whole financial data at one year at a time…Goals and data, $ and %, – all calculated.
      1. Obligations Goals %
      2. Obligations Goals $ – calculated from budget amount
      3. Obligation % and $ from Financial Data…. multiple data
      4. Outlay Goals %
      5. Outlay Goals $ – calculated from budget amount
      6. Outlay % and $ from Financial Data… multiple data
    • Goals Data query….for project uid 100
      • SELECT * FROM (
        SELECT
        p.uid as p_uid,
        c.uid as c_uid,
        a.uid as a_uid,
        a.amount as a_amount,
        null as o_uid,
        ‘Obligation %:’ as o_type,
        (p.begin_year + a.year – 1) as o_year,
        a.year as o_year_count,
        null as o_project_id,
        null as o_funding_id,
        CONCAT (g.obligation_month_1, ‘%’) as o_month_1
        FROM `projects` p,
        budget_centers c,
        budget_amounts a,
        obligations_outlays_goals g
        WHERE p.uid = c.project_id
        AND c.uid = a.budget_center_id
        AND c.appropriation = g.appropriation
        AND a.year = g.year
        UNION
        SELECT
        p.uid as p_uid,
        c.uid as c_uid,
        a.uid as a_uid,
        a.amount as a_amount,
        null as o_uid,
        ‘Obligation $:’ as o_type,
        (p.begin_year + a.year – 1) as o_year,
        a.year as o_year_count,
        null as o_project_id,
        null as o_funding_id,
        (a.amount * g.obligation_month_1 / 100) as o_month_1
        FROM `projects` p,
        budget_centers c,
        budget_amounts a,
        obligations_outlays_goals g
        WHERE p.uid = c.project_id
        AND c.uid = a.budget_center_id
        AND c.appropriation = g.appropriation
        AND a.year = g.year
        UNION
        SELECT
        p.uid as p_uid,
        c.uid as c_uid,
        a.uid as a_uid,
        a.amount as a_amount,
        o.uid as o_uid,
        o.type as o_type,
        o.year as o_year,
        o.year_count as o_year_count,
        o.project_id as o_project_id,
        o.funding_id as o_funding_id,
        o.month_1 as o_month_1
        FROM `projects` p,
        budget_centers c,
        budget_amounts a,
        obligations_outlays o,
        obligations_outlays_goals g
        WHERE p.uid = c.project_id
        AND c.uid = a.budget_center_id
        AND o.funding_id = c.uid
        AND a.year = o.year_count
        AND c.appropriation = g.appropriation
        AND a.year = g.year
        AND o.type LIKE ‘%Obligated%’
        UNION
        SELECT
        p.uid as p_uid,
        c.uid as c_uid,
        a.uid as a_uid,
        a.amount as a_amount,
        o.uid as o_uid,
        REPLACE (o.type, ‘$:’, ‘%:’) as o_type,
        o.year as o_year,
        o.year_count as o_year_count,
        o.project_id as o_project_id,
        o.funding_id as o_funding_id,
        (o.month_1 / a.amount) as o_month_1
        FROM `projects` p,
        budget_centers c,
        budget_amounts a,
        obligations_outlays o,
        obligations_outlays_goals g
        WHERE p.uid = c.project_id
        AND c.uid = a.budget_center_id
        AND o.funding_id = c.uid
        AND a.year = o.year_count
        AND c.appropriation = g.appropriation
        AND a.year = g.year
        AND o.type LIKE ‘%Obligated%’
        UNION
        SELECT
        p.uid as p_uid,
        c.uid as c_uid,
        a.uid as a_uid,
        a.amount as a_amount,
        null as o_uid,
        ‘Outlay %:’ as o_type,
        (p.begin_year + a.year – 1) as o_year,
        a.year as o_year_count,
        null as o_project_id,
        null as o_funding_id,
        CONCAT (g.outlay_month_1, ‘%’) as o_month_1
        FROM `projects` p,
        budget_centers c,
        budget_amounts a,
        obligations_outlays_goals g
        WHERE p.uid = c.project_id
        AND c.uid = a.budget_center_id
        AND c.appropriation = g.appropriation
        AND a.year = g.year
        UNION
        SELECT
        p.uid as p_uid,
        c.uid as c_uid,
        a.uid as a_uid,
        a.amount as a_amount,
        null as o_uid,
        ‘Outlay $:’ as o_type,
        (p.begin_year + a.year – 1) as o_year,
        a.year as o_year_count,
        null as o_project_id,
        null as o_funding_id,
        (a.amount * g.outlay_month_1 / 100) as o_month_1
        FROM `projects` p,
        budget_centers c,
        budget_amounts a,
        obligations_outlays_goals g
        WHERE p.uid = c.project_id
        AND c.uid = a.budget_center_id
        AND c.appropriation = g.appropriation
        AND a.year = g.year
        UNION
        SELECT
        p.uid as p_uid,
        c.uid as c_uid,
        a.uid as a_uid,
        a.amount as a_amount,
        o.uid as o_uid,
        o.type as o_type,
        o.year as o_year,
        o.year_count as o_year_count,
        o.project_id as o_project_id,
        o.funding_id as o_funding_id,
        o.month_1 as o_month_1
        FROM `projects` p,
        budget_centers c,
        budget_amounts a,
        obligations_outlays o,
        obligations_outlays_goals g
        WHERE p.uid = c.project_id
        AND c.uid = a.budget_center_id
        AND o.funding_id = c.uid
        AND a.year = o.year_count
        AND c.appropriation = g.appropriation
        AND a.year = g.year
        AND o.type LIKE ‘%Outlay%’
        UNION
        SELECT
        p.uid as p_uid,
        c.uid as c_uid,
        a.uid as a_uid,
        a.amount as a_amount,
        o.uid as o_uid,
        REPLACE (o.type, ‘$:’, ‘%:’) as o_type,
        o.year as o_year,
        o.year_count as o_year_count,
        o.project_id as o_project_id,
        o.funding_id as o_funding_id,
        (o.month_1 / a.amount) as o_month_1
        FROM `projects` p,
        budget_centers c,
        budget_amounts a,
        obligations_outlays o,
        obligations_outlays_goals g
        WHERE p.uid = c.project_id
        AND c.uid = a.budget_center_id
        AND o.funding_id = c.uid
        AND a.year = o.year_count
        AND c.appropriation = g.appropriation
        AND a.year = g.year
        AND o.type LIKE ‘%Outlay%’
        ) AS X
        WHERE p_uid = 100 AND o_year=2011 AND o_year_count=1

Phil 10.6.11

8:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Talked to Bill D, mostly about not freaking out Stark.
  • Dong met with Tanji. Meetings will be either Monday or Thursday, with donuts. Since Monday is a holiday, first donuts meeting will be Thursday.
  • Got admin privileges. Mike thinks he’ll have some code to test tomorrow or so.
  • Going through Mike’s code to see how he’s talking to Google.

Tom DeVito 10.5.2011

Start: 9:00

  • Lengthened the wires for the sensor circuits and attached a connector to them
  • I think I might have found the problem in my code.   I made some changes but will have to get at least one finger wired up completely before I can test it.
  • Noticed that I didn’t wire one of the rheostats to the proper address.  Issue was resolved.

End: 5:00

Phil 10.5.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Spent the morning doing paperwork and helping Mike get permissions to use our servers
  • Went over the wizard basics with Dong. He thinks he’ll have something by the end of the week.