8:00 – 11:00 VISIBILITY

• Added a role for Paul O’s group.
• Fixed Paul O’s tables. It turns out that the Excel ingestor chokes on ‘-‘. Asked Dong to take a look at informing the user if the ingestor fails.
• Finished my IA refresher
• Talked to Anne about Paul’s project and about the upcoming meeting.

11:00 – 1:00 Savage Mill

• Went over with Brian to explain wall positions and discuss ceiling options. We should have a quote by the end of the day.

1:00 – 4:00 FP

• Working on provisional patent. Decided not to use the software and just write the thing.
• Got about 5 pages into the application. It’s coming along well

7:30 – 11:00, 1:00 – 3:30 VISIBILITY

• Talked to Ann, it looks like things may be happening in September. Need to work on getting some of John’s data ingested
• Started IA online course. Should finish tomorrow.
• QC-ing Dong’s PPM code
• More talks with Anne. Meeting at 9:00 Sept 3 for now.

11:00 – 1:00 FP

• Working on refining collision detection and adding more obstacles
• Contacted Stuart Shapiro ( sbs@usiplaw.com) about filing a provisional patent. Looks like this would be useful: https://www.patentwizard.com/
• Had to get rid of an infinitely large vector that results from a collision too close to the origins of the two colliding point masses basically a 0/x problem, where x > 0

7:30 – 12:30 VISIBILITY

• No Trish for meeting reschedule for Monday. I believe that we will try again Monday.
• Long meeting with Anne and John D. about using VISIBILITY for their stuff.
• Did find a few bugs with PPM
  • I attempted to save off a filled out version of the “5 questions” form with some cut and paste data in the fields. The form never saved successfully, and the timer icon never came back
  • The vertical tab that switches between charts and data in the financial entry chart has the full year in it. It should be “Year 1”, “Year 2”, etc.
• Talked to John W. about documentation some.

FP 12:30 – 3:30

• Got the EL axis working and integrated
• Got everything working with the physics and the graphics, although I need to clean up collision detection. THings are ready to demo.
• Worked on the next version a bit. A full hand interface, without additional motion, but able to sense XYZ on its base.

8:00 – 10:00, 3:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• Clift had forwarded some questions about ingesting data from Paul O. I described how to ingest an excel spreadsheet and pointed to the Ingest Manager tutorials. Paul would also like an Access ingestor. Not sure if it would be as straightforward as setting a jdbc access jar and running the same commands we would otherwise.
  • It could be relatively straightforward – here’s a website describing same: http://www.easysoft.com/applications/microsoft-access/jdbc-odbc.html
• And FGM’s mail servers are down. Whee.

10:00 – 3:00FP

• Adding in additional axis. Working out which should be x and which should be Y.
• When I get the Y-axis working, I’ll need to reset the clamp on the fingers so that they stay centered around the “hand”, Which is going to need some additional graphics to show. We’ll start with that.
• Graphics are done. Working on getting the collision for the hand to be the average of the finger X-axis collision forces.

7:30 – 10:30VISIBILITY

• Nothing new on site, but two meetings scheduled for Friday

10:30 – 2:00 OVERHEAD

• 9:30 meeting at Savage Mill
• Worked on the redesign of the office space to accommodate the sprinkler system

2:00 – 3:30FP

• Got the fingers working pretty well. There is a lag of about 0.25 sec or so between collision and response, but it’s good enough to see that things will work.
• Need to add an x-axis in with collision response next. Maybe make a maze of gray balls.

7:30 – 10:00 VISIBILITY

• When checking over the query logs this morning, found that Paul O. Had spent most of Friday using VISIBILITY. He made 133 queries in 9 or so hours, spending most of his time on the LOTR and cars examples
• Went over status of PPM with Dong. We’re going to aim for Wednesday to walk through the new changes.

10:00 – 3:30 FP

• Working on reading the sensors. They seem to be working well. Working on calibration code – done
• Making a bi-linear normalizing, since there seems to be a big difference between pushing up on a sensor and pushing down.
• Update graphics to show new axis

7:30 – 11:30 VISIBILITY

• Meeting with Trish and Chris
  • Tabs in Financial Entry should read “Year 1″, Year 2”, “Year 3” etc., to avoid confusion between appropriation year and budget year
  • Still not starting FY in October
  • Whenever a reported obligation out outlay is less than 99.9% of the (calculated) goal (currently not visible), a dialog with Trish’s questions should come up. There is shared data between obligation and outlay reports for a given month.
  • Dialog should be smart enough to know if an obligation or outlay value is not applicable in a dialog, since one or the other or both may be under the estimate.
• Responded to Paul O’s questions about how to interact with the report builder.
• Went over the meeting results with Dong, and gave him Trish’s “5 questions”.
• Went over the rough layout of the visibility system with Kiel.

11:30 – 3:30 FP

• Working on fingers. Building the ServoMotorController class. Done.
• Had to wait for the servoController class to initialize before getting the handle to the motors.
• Had to initialize and engage all axis in the ServoController. I could do this inside the ServoMotorController.
• Need to adjust speeds and ramps for the servos