Report Date: 5/18/2006 10:54:42 AM
Friday, April 7 through Sunday, April 16 (includes all of spring break) -- What work did you do for this class on this day? Grades  [E35B20A23A6E48F983214299E7BDEC91]
"RESPONSE ID"	"NAME"	"USERNAME"	"DATE SUBMITTED"	"FIELD_13A96747BFE04CDFA83F7706CF0AF4DC"	"FIELD_035AC2B77E374275A648B769DB5F4E0A"	"FIELD_CCA7A2642FAD47F99BA93E0C6F9FF829"
"8B76B445B70248E7AA8F59929CE235D1"	"Achard, Christopher"	"achardct"	"4/16/2006 5:46:21 PM"	"2 hours"	"I did think over break about stragegy, and drew up some plans - but I don't think any of them are particularly good."	"We'll see if my team likes my ideas."
"A2494F1DEF294200BCB24E20C41864D9"	"Aigner, Thomas"	"aignerte"	"4/17/2006 9:37:17 AM"	"4 hours"	"brainstormed"	"nothing really intense.  Just thought about it off and on through out the week"
"EC3CE12BCE514E6DBCEC112098E0B7F4"	"Barnard, Curtis"	"barnarcp"	"4/19/2006 11:09:15 PM"	"0 hours"	"Busy busy over break"	""
"1F8306544400460AB5768FD714C6681A"	"Barnard, Curtis"	"barnarcp"	"4/20/2006 12:04:31 AM"	"2.5 hours"	"Correction. I forgot this covered what we did on friday. We got in contact with one of our botball groups. We had a teleconference with them during their meeting."	"So, it was pretty hard getting in touch with our botball team. The phone we called them on was in a closet. I think that we are going to have an interersting time remaining in close cotnact. Their problem was that they were not using any semicolons in their program..."
"D57E8C2C2E034EFAA5F65E18F2159E77"	"Barthel, Paul"	"barthep"	"4/17/2006 3:52:56 PM"	"9 hours"	"I just spent some time on reviewing some of the beyond botball documentation, some of the general botball documentation and also reviewed some of the work we accomplished so far. I also spent time thinking about the beyond botball competition."	""
"AC76CA6BB4A44F1180D62D1B72BB7261"	"Blackburn, W. Ryan"	"blackbwr"	"4/17/2006 8:21:08 PM"	"1 hour"	"Cheked and responded to emails from my school."	"Didn't do a lot over break because of lack of access to computers but was able to do basic email communications. "
"F8C52BDBEC5146E3BF0A2E8A1A72D929"	"Blankenbaker, Zachariah"	"blankezd"	"4/17/2006 11:26:25 PM"	"6 hours"	"I spent time working with the robots, thinking about how to deal with climbing over PVC, and possible stategies for beyond botball."	"No problems.    I didn't get immediate feedback and there really isn't any way to tell if my ideas would have lead to competitive robots."
"DC2BB427E6C04509A2DBFE0C44BC0187"	"Boyce, Jonathan"	"boycejs"	"4/17/2006 9:01:17 PM"	"2 hours"	"Talked to my parents about what the course was about."	"- I did not encounter any problems. - My parents seemed to understand what I was talking about. - Talking to my parents was not a team activity. - I thought it was interesting how they reacted to my description of the course. They really thought, as I did at first I guess, that this course would be a knowledge and application based course more than a service learning course. - There were no take away lessons in what I did during spring break."
"6ACC7B631D1E4025B8C19E716DA4060D"	"Collins, Mary"	"collinmm"	"4/16/2006 4:51:02 PM"	"0 hours"	"Spring break."	""
"E5A089764BC54FA8A83DAA7DDB9CD2E6"	"Dunning, Nicholas"	"dunninnb"	"4/17/2006 10:05:19 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"71DF327B279A4F3EAE7C1C97E0C64F94"	"Ersson, Krishnamurti"	"erssonkk"	"4/16/2006 6:54:58 PM"	"12 hours"	"I stayed on campus during break, so I was able to devote a fair amount of time to brainstorming activies. I did searches on the interet and browsed my ECE361 files as well."	"My only problem this week was that I was planning on doing work with the North Vigo team, but unforseen problems arose with my projects at Rose-Hulman Ventures and I had to come in to do work instead.  I am eager to see what ideas my other teammates have come up with, but I am also doubtful that any significant work will have been done by some of the members, who have so far been less than enthusiastic about the class.  I think one of the challenges with the pair programming style of work will be getting everyone to participate equally. One of our teammembers has been very uncooperative this quarter and I don't think he's going to change. Hopefully he will be able to contribute something though!"
"DE4DBC09463F44E8A17740CB8FBC7E37"	"Garrette, Kimbrell"	"garretkj"	"4/17/2006 12:51:28 PM"	"2 hours"	"On Friday I went to Woodrow Wilson and we explained the rules again and then had the children brainstorm again."	"It went really well and the kids had tons of ideas and were really excited about them."
"12A0C0B0DD804E21961C6F5546510962"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/17/2006 1:03:08 AM"	"1 hour"	"1 hr - thought about what to do for our website."	"Nothing major - thinking about how to lay out the website once we get something good put together."
"1ED4426BA30C427C9EF1269BD2BDE65D"	"Hochstedler, Jason"	"hochstja"	"4/17/2006 6:57:12 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"02465347A1544C64A11CB10DE86065CF"	"Knutson, Erik"	"knutsoej"	"4/24/2006 10:14:49 AM"	"0 hours"	"I had intended too do some work, but other concerns took me away from this."	""
"E26CEBE88C2E45D5BE455F4D95129374"	"Kornienko, Ivan"	"kornieis"	"4/17/2006 11:39:37 AM"	"6 hours"	"Though more about the design of our robot as well as our visit to the school."	"Worked on the "
"B38426404DDA4C2397A1C14D26A2635D"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/17/2006 2:43:52 AM"	"4 hours"	"Nothing on friday, but over spring break thought a lot about how to implement the ideas that our team discussed before break."	"Our robot, as I currently see it, will be composed of different parts, probably 2-3 pieces.  We want to ensure that our botguy on our side gets picked up or protected in some way throughout the match.  We also want to block the other team's scoring area, because there doesn't seem to be anything in the rules that specifically prohibits this.  We may also have a piece that, after the 20secs of not being able to goto the other side expires, will then go over there and in general wreck havoc."
"0872F2B114844A78BC07A8D84CB5AACB"	"Meyer, D. Christopher"	"meyerdc"	"4/17/2006 5:34:50 PM"	"3 hours"	"Today Kibrell and I went to WWMS to work with the botball team.  I updated the TWIKI entry for WWMS."	"The two of us had to determine what we were going to do with the team since Dr. Mutchler would not be there.  We determined that we would finish up brainstorming with the students in order to get them ready for building.  Everything went well.  THe only problem that we ran into was the way we sorted ideas was different betweeen the two groups, but Kimbrell and I were able to make it all work out."
"F056E1B94691414CA2CB1A8E4B5F2AA7"	"Mohling, Nathan"	"mohlinna"	"5/15/2006 2:04:13 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"C8244D3F22D84BD6BFF8694BACCA88F7"	"Musial, Bryan"	"musialbk"	"4/16/2006 8:21:50 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"Sent email to my teams to remind them that Rose was on Spring Break the following week."	""
"09A77E8ECA6D41CB8A564A30C2E8AF03"	"Myung, Seho"	"myungs"	"4/16/2006 10:42:14 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"40868506C65C44E09FEBF5C79BA36E9F"	"Nicklyn, Nicholas"	"nicklynj"	"4/20/2006 5:34:54 AM"	"3 hours"	"working with interactive c and pondering about our robot design"	"killed some time while on the airplane making simulation programs with interactive C; also thought about how to design robot to maximize the efficiency of interactions between software and hardware sensors that would allow the robot to easily understand ball color and its own location"
"FCC2DB93227544B7B3D583B659B928FC"	"Osborn, Jason"	"osbornj1"	"4/17/2006 2:50:59 PM"	"4 hours"	"brainstormed on beyond botball over break."	"collectivly we came up with ideas for 3 bots to implement our strategy of making the other team lose points."
"CC9BF32E1D2A49C7A41F167AEDB1AC60"	"Pethick, Lindsay"	"pethiclc"	"4/17/2006 11:22:54 PM"	"3.5 hours"	"Discussed class with other students and spent some time thinking about strategies and designing mechanisms for use in beyond botball."	"I got some interesting ideas from talking to other people, and had to rethink some of my ideas because of feasibility issues, but I think good solutions were found for most of the problems except for one or two."
"A6389CAD593B471F8CE477DA2688C27C"	"Phillips, Jacob"	"phillijr"	"4/18/2006 8:15:02 AM"	"8 hours"	"Over break I thought about more ideas for creating a successful robot. "	"I came up with three main strategies to work on. The first being keeping the other robot from scoring. This can be done by confusing the robot, taking away their scoring items, blocking the robot from entering the scoring zone, and/or guarding their scoring basket. Ther other two strategies/problems that need to be worked on are creating a robot that can easily navigate the course over the PVC pipes and working on a scoring strategy."
"72EB4C34179C4B0EAF6544BDFD2B79E3"	"Poehler, Lance"	"poehlelm"	"4/17/2006 11:54:42 AM"	"1 hour"	"Over the break I checked angle about once a day to see there was any new information regarding the class.  This included checking for any new surveys online.  On Sunday I received an email from Dr. Mutchler regarding the surveys."	"I didn�t really have any problems over the break.  On the other hand, I didn�t really get anything accomplished either.  This was because the surveys weren�t online when I was checking.  I know my team was scheduled to meet with Woodrow Wilson on Friday.  I would like to find out in class today how that went.  My team was planning on brainstorming this the students to help them move a little further along with their robot."
"710AA84D1BC342C992C3A887F4EE3AFE"	"Sadeli, Jeffrey"	"sadelij"	"4/17/2006 11:13:03 PM"	"3 hours"	"visit woodrow wilson"	"drop off the equipments."
"2A5C0FC9334843618D98B1568D771741"	"Spencer, Andrew"	"spenceal"	"4/18/2006 11:56:11 PM"	"1 hour"	"Class"	""
"F0E35549A3E14EF1980FD9A9869571DA"	"Spencer, Andrew"	"spenceal"	"4/19/2006 12:00:55 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"Thinking of ideas for the our robot and things to do with the teams. "	"I didn't really get a lot acomplished, but came up with some ideas. I probably should have written stuff down because it seems like i'm forgetting some of the stuff I came up with."
"06A61264181A4DC5A34EE06515819025"	"Stachowski, Matthew"	"stachoma"	"4/20/2006 1:22:34 PM"	"More than 12 hours"	"I pondered design possibilities, specifically ways to move over the pipe into neutral territory and methods to interfere with the opposing bot without damaging it."	"The work was interesting in and of itself.  It was certainly more interesting (and productive) than watching the scenery during my 4 hour drive home (not to mention waiting at an airport)."
"E4C4D4476FA54117992A8D8F2C5735C6"	"Sullivan, Johnathan"	"sullivja"	"4/17/2006 6:17:12 PM"	"5 hours"	"I finished selecting parts to take home over spring break.  I worked on programming for the camera using the Handyboard.  I worked on understanding the mindstorm brain."	"The biggest failure was that I was unable to get the function that would get a certain number of ticks on a motor.  All I could do was get it to go for a certain amount of time.  I was also not very successful in programming for the camera (It was very difficult).  I was, however, very successful in gettting the mindstorm robot to do almost everything I wanted, so I am now much more fluent in the IC programming for the mindstorm brain."
"571C1CD91C0C465998C3E73404EFD478"	"Tharp, Samuel"	"tharpsf"	"4/20/2006 9:22:13 PM"	"More than 12 hours"	"maybe... 20 hours? Talking, planning, discussing ideas with friends and family and pouring over rules and regulations."	"Lots of work over spring break. And most of it was figuring out what we can and cannot do for our robotics project. Unfortunately, most of the time was spent up at a cabin with no real internet connect. However, I was able to download the rules off the internet and started to toy around with some ideas I had for robots.  I hope we can kind of keep it to the "KISS" idea of robotics. Definately figure that a more defensive strategy would be perfect for what we have in mind. From what I have read, there is nothing against use using the barrier as a method of keeping them from scoring lots of points. I also noticed that they did not mention anything about dropping balls back INTO their starting bins for the opponents. Definately a killer idea.  I also have toyed with a few random ideas about rubber band machines that quickly reach out and grab stuff, but that 20 second timer is going to make things difficult.  I hope to share all my newfound knowledge with my teammates and see how they react."
"AE5AFEC637B64308BA52CF3D51DBB5DF"	"Thayer, Jordan"	"thayerjt"	"4/18/2006 1:34:42 PM"	"10 hours"	"I read over the rules for beyond botball and came up with a few ideas of how to try and win."	""
"3E0681CD272346659BDD0445D980714C"	"Turpyn, Michael"	"turpynmr"	"4/16/2006 8:52:08 PM"	"4 hours"	"I corresponded with one of the teams answering some questions that they might have had about coding botball.  I also spent some time thinking about what our beyond botball bot should look like and what it should do to win. "	"The Centerville team seems to be coming along fine, although they are having some difficulty with the code.  Hopefully the reference sheet and examples that we post online will be helpful to them.  Also, I decided that a pirate ship bot that sets up a blockade in the neutral zone would be a fun and effective strategy. "