Tom.DeVito 5.4.2011

  • Am able to send data from visual studio program to the Arduino but the response is still not working for some reason.
  • Need to find a proper 15+ watt amplifier, which can be controlled digitally, for the bass shakers.  Once I find one we can order those and the other 1 watt transducers.
  • The main Arduino sketch is now in RCS controller format but still needs many of the functions filled in as well as the communication stuff I am still trying to work the bugs out of.

Dong Shin 05.04.2011

  • Continue working on Financial Status….
  • saving Financial Status works!
  • Multiple Direct Cites causing duplicate rows in Financial Status – How do we handle this? Summary ?
  • created MySQLUtils in MySQLIf package to handle some conversions (Date, String)

Phil 5.4.11

7:30 – 6:30 VISIBILITY

  • Added probabalistic direct p calculation to ANOVA and MANOVA.
  • Deployed new PPM. Seems to be OK. Asked Christie to try it out.
  • Was actually able to get to the password section of the server login. Went through all kinds of permuations on how to log in with Allan N., but no luck. At this point it looks like we need *another* account. I put in the appropriate ticked.
  • Wrote up status and sent them to Brian and Bill.

Dong Shin 04.29.2011

  • PPM Changes
    • Fixed Excel export error cause by wrong project ID in Generate Emails for selected projects
    • changed Description in Funding Request to TextArea from TextInput – vertical scroll bar still appears for lines more than 4
    • Fixed errors creating Funding Request – Project ID not set
    • Fixed a bug showing Export Multiple button on a single project

Tom.DeVito 4.28.2011

Tones and Speakers:

  • Chords, although bad sounding, are much louder and vibrate more then single tones.
  • 1 Watt may not actually be enough power for what we are trying to do.  Both the mini-speaker and the hacked cone-less speaker have the same volume.  The hacked speaker provides more vibration but too much pressure on the voice coil stalls it.
  • A speaker with high sensitivity like the ones in my sony headphones might be good.  They can produce over 100db with 30mw of input.  The low power makes me think these will still stall, not vibrate enough, and if you remove the cone they will be quiet.
  • I did not see these when I was looking for transducers before but these may be perfect: http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=300-379.
  • Not sure how we would power them or what amplifiers we would need but these may be good for providing a thump on initial contact: http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=300-388

Comm:

  • BYTE as defined by windows.h is an unsigned char.  It is also defined in the standard arduino library.
  • Sending commands for each step of volume is slow.  Its better to send the change in steps and let the arduino handle it.
  • Notes from conversation with Phil:

COMMAND
INIT
SETVOUME
PLAYSOUND
MUTESOUND

RESPONSE
ECHO SERIAL STATUS
EXECUTING
DONE

COMMAND ARRAY:  COMMAND, SERIAL, DATA (3 Bytes)

  • Cleaning up arduino sketch an rewriting the parts from the examples.

Dong Shin 04.28.2011

  • working at home
  • PPM Changes
    • additional fields for Funding Request to support Financial Status
      • comments, initiate_commit, PM_actual_outlay, MIPR_requested_date, MIPR_request_received_date, acceptance_received, received_contract, monthly_tech_report – ALTER TABLE `funding_requests` ADD `comments` LONGTEXT NULL DEFAULT NULL,ADD `initiate_commit` DOUBLE NULL DEFAULT NULL,ADD `PM_actual_outlay` DOUBLE NULL DEFAULT NULL,ADD `MIPR_requested_date` DATE NULL DEFAULT NULL,ADD `MIPR_request_received_date` DATE NULL DEFAULT NULL,ADD `acceptance_received` DATE NULL DEFAULT NULL,ADD `received_contract` DATE NULL DEFAULT NULL,ADD `monthly_tech_report` DATE NULL DEFAULT NULL
    • modified FianancialStatusData to work with the new table structure

Phil 4.28.11

7:30 – VISIBILITY

  • Burn a disk and attempt to deploy new PPM this afternoon.
    • Found two bugs:
      • In the Funding Request Form, if the Description is long enough, it causes scroll bars to appear
      • When trying to save out a spreadsheet, I got an “Error Exporting Data: Error #2007” Alert box
    • Other than that, the upload process went well using the web interface, so I don’t have to go through the shared drive.
    • Tried again to contact Alan N. No luck by email or phone.
    • Bill asked me to inform Denise P., but she’s on leave starting today and ending late next week
  • Upload presentation – done
  • Add type and MANOVA support to within group and multifactor widgets – done
  • “Add All” added to sources
  • Showing an alert() if one of the commands fails.
  • See if I can make a better interaction plot, at least with the multifactor widget
  • Add plotting to the console
  • Added interaction.plot to RManova. Need to do the same for RMultifactorRepeated
  • Added PPM bugs to all the places we list them 🙂

Mike 4.27.2011

  • Burned stand alone demo of reporting tool to CD for Brian
  • An editor for modifying Text sections of reports is now complete
  • An editor for modifying image sections of reports is now complete
  • Added log / debug info access to the log in screen to help diagnose problems
  • Working on an insert / remove, drag and drop system for creating report structures.  Users will be able to drag report section types together in to a Tree list to construct a hierarchical report structure and then go through and fill in each section with content.

Phil 4.26.2011

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • When I went in for my meeting with Trish and Christie, I found that Trish had called in sick. We will have to reschedule. Did talk to Christie a bit.
  • Somehow managed to blow away my firefox cache and spent a while trying to put that together again.
  • Tried logging in again with PuTTY – no luck. Tried to contact Alan Neff, but he was not in yet. Will have to pick this up again later today.
  • Tested Dong’s PPM code and promptly broke it. It’s a knack 🙂
  • Went back to the customer, but was unable to connect with Allan N.

Dong Shin 04.25.2011

  • PPM Changes
    • trouble-shooting search on Contracts Window
      • throws exception at very same place every time
      • Error: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
      • description about N66001-03-D-7002
      • added try catch, still throws exceptions, but behaves better……
    • removed Amount in Contracts sections in Excel export – keep Contract Amount
    • added SOW Window to view and edit long SOW’s for Funding Request