Report Date: 5/19/2006 3:41:56 PM
Wednesday, April 26 -- What work did you do for this class on this day? Grades  [77ACA7366F76486699E8E198CA7E86F6]
"RESPONSE ID"	"NAME"	"USERNAME"	"DATE SUBMITTED"	"FIELD_70021E6B69F645429A669DF682B26EA3"	"FIELD_BEE8A51AF96747C6A16EC9E2E6168D21"	"FIELD_08A809A017E44611ADE0F25D192A2B72"
"10816AFBFDA049589434969B9ED3AA2C"	"Achard, Christopher"	"achardct"	"4/30/2006 9:07:31 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"It (again) wasn't really a productive day, but we did talk about our general strategy again, and made sure that a couple of parts fit together."	"Our team isn't well motivated for the most part, except that we think we could do some neat stuff with Legos."
"E6FAC38989164B14B6628BE834033039"	"Aigner, Thomas"	"aignerte"	"5/9/2006 10:40:29 AM"	"3 hours"	"went to north i believe"	""
"C462E5F4CD4B447BA903E2D1A605C5D5"	"Barnard, Curtis"	"barnarcp"	"5/17/2006 4:31:07 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"6B81C779783B4AA8AC8079FA2A36D623"	"Barthel, Paul"	"barthep"	"5/1/2006 12:32:54 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"I totally apologize for falling behind filling out these surveys, lately. I hope you noticed that I did that very accurately, before. I will put in an average of 2.5 hours per day/weekend, which is the minimum of time I actually spend, including class, class assignments, working with our Botball teams, team communications, several team meetings for Beyond Botball, individual work/thought on Beyond Botball, and possibly other things which I can't think of anymore, right now. I hope that is acceptable for you. Thanks."	""
"496B72835E3C4C489C9611405B1085D9"	"Blackburn, W. Ryan"	"blackbwr"	"4/30/2006 3:58:13 PM"	"3 hours"	"Worked on building the bot for boynd botball. Trie dto get a basic deisng down."	"Finding all the right parts took awhile but it turned out ok.Bascially worked independentally when we had the time to work on the bot."
"B7B1B47E5108489DAF90D92748997D7E"	"Boyce, Jonathan"	"boycejs"	"5/1/2006 7:22:12 AM"	"2.5 hours"	"Worked more on programming techniques and talked with other teams about the class and their progress."	"- I encountered no problems. - I'll be able to check how what I'm doing is working when we start programming our robots. - I did not work with my teammmates. - I learned that one team has the program done, but no robot, I thought that was interesting because it seems like it would be hard to test their program without a robot. - The programming practice should do me good in the future as well."
"992B5EC520D74BDC87A371A9A8EBC2CE"	"Chvojicek, Benjamin"	"chvojibc"	"5/18/2006 4:33:30 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Robot building."	"Extreme programming looks like a hopeful process."
"AEF15C77F0BB4585BE7584E30375680F"	"Collins, Mary"	"collinmm"	"5/8/2006 12:11:12 PM"	"1 hour"	"I don't recall what I did this day."	""
"2AC93E70738A40CBBF4BCF6F76244519"	"Dial, Scott"	"dialsa"	"5/12/2006 5:11:27 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"5B315069FF654401BE5B3EAD626420F5"	"Dunning, Nicholas"	"dunninnb"	"4/30/2006 1:54:10 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"8DCFB25188434C65A28334E880163790"	"Ersson, Krishnamurti"	"erssonkk"	"4/28/2006 10:41:47 AM"	"4 hours"	"Today I worked in the CSSE lab building a chassis and attaching the Handyboard to it. I also got IC working with the board."	"The main goal for today was to get a working testbed (chassis) with our Handyboard attached. Now we can start attaching prototype pieces to it and begin testing and integrating. I also uploaded a simple program to remote control the robot for testing purposes.  Unfortunately I wasn't able to do much teamwork today as I was the only one who could make it to the lab. But the main motivation for today was to simply get something built so we could start testing things out as soon as possible. I'm not sure that my other teammates realize how much time it takes to adequately test and tweak something and competition day will be here sooner than they think. Tomorrow I plan to really push to get the ball rolling."
"5EC9DDB1B7424AF8964BA51DCF5D0A9E"	"Garrette, Kimbrell"	"garretkj"	"4/27/2006 6:12:36 PM"	"1 hour"	"I came into the lab and worked on our robot for a little while."	""
"3ABBBFB307E547A89962E4A7B0B24207"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/27/2006 4:28:13 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"370DA4AF9A49414995A2FE57121590FD"	"Hochstedler, Jason"	"hochstja"	"5/4/2006 9:59:21 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"9B3F34B8CE984368BBCFAABABC2270C4"	"Knutson, Erik"	"knutsoej"	"5/12/2006 11:57:38 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"E2A4C10129EF4987AC2EE52168668CA2"	"Kornienko, Ivan"	"kornieis"	"5/1/2006 9:23:56 PM"	"3.5 hours"	"Today I worked on my own thinking more about the robot for beyondbotball."	"I worked on my own trying to plan out a new way we can get to th other side and retreive the bot guy. Our current method does not seem to consider our opponent. I was trying to figure out a way for us to keep our opponent in mind while retrieving the bot guy."
"2A0DCBE0B82D4B669FCDE98835000E7B"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/30/2006 2:23:28 PM"	"3 hours"	"Came in after giving blood to come up with a good example of my design that I could actually show my team."	"The first thing that I designed this day was a method for attaching the top of the height extender to the actual ball basket, since given the nature of how it extends (once again, an example can be found here: http://www.daddonastudios.com/pages/1/kids/images/boxing_glove.jpg ) it means the device can't be actually fixed to the ball basket, otherwise it won't extend and won't do anything at all.  So the first half of the day I worked on a way that the extender could slide along the basket, if the basket had rods underneath it.        I eventually got that working, and starting thinking about how to actually lift the whole thing, since it needed a compressing action between two points to work.  There were a few possibilities, but either hydralics or a motor attached to flat gears seemed the best options.  I decided to work on the hydralics, since I'd never really used them before and thought the compression and extension mechanism of them fit well into what I was doing.  So an hour or two later I figured out how they worked and had attached them to my extender successfully.  One pump could lift and drop the extender a few times on a full pump, but this was without the ball basket, so I didn't think it'd work too well with the extra weight, and that at least two pumps would be needed if hydralics would work.  But, I had to go, and at least I had something to show my team."
"C54580D2263D4DB0A2ADC0EF57A97C49"	"Meyer, D. Christopher"	"meyerdc"	"4/27/2006 7:02:10 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"I spent some time today brainstorming ways for the distractor robot to distract."	"THis session just came out of nowhere, but the ideas seemed feasible."
"A891E5E2659A47B1B517EF50EB03B14D"	"Mohling, Nathan"	"mohlinna"	"5/15/2006 2:14:40 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"412496300F14426F846ADEAF47325F20"	"Musial, Bryan"	"musialbk"	"5/1/2006 10:29:30 AM"	"3 hours"	"Although class did not meet today, I spent time with Goshen MS in code debug.  And spoke at length with students from previous quarters of this class who had ideas about our project."	""
"28BD2115AF894310903D3BC8E6318B10"	"Myung, Seho"	"myungs"	"5/4/2006 3:18:55 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Don't really remember, worked on something with robot."	""
"1BBFEEEDA8A44F538CB207EE0612FB56"	"Nicklyn, Nicholas"	"nicklynj"	"4/30/2006 11:44:41 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"FF4DE9488DA047ED96FE7E5F880F0AE5"	"Osborn, Jason"	"osbornj1"	"5/4/2006 3:59:25 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"collective time brainstorming ideas and improvements for the claw portion of our wall"	"had a few issues with making a firm clamp yet still being able to maintain an upright position of the wall post."
"4660FD1307F841E3A284056D10CBF919"	"Pethick, Lindsay"	"pethiclc"	"5/19/2006 2:23:38 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Worked on robot, discussed class work with others."	"No problems encountered during this day."
"61A4ED9ED16D46C582B9AAF4F91E9A4E"	"Phillips, Jacob"	"phillijr"	"4/30/2006 8:21:45 PM"	"2 hours"	"Locomotion and ball pick-up ideas."	""
"FD21F096F30F49D3A472C82161939C64"	"Poehler, Lance"	"poehlelm"	"4/27/2006 4:39:12 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"On Wednesday I completed the survey for April 24th.  I also started to write up some solutions for our 2nd robot design."	"Our 2nd robot is having some problems getting over the PVC pipe.  On Wednesday I tried to come up with a few solutions that would help to solve this.  I should be able to test my ideas out on Thursday.  At that point in time I will be able to find out if I have been able to make any progress."
"E8C8AA95BE554B88909274E20E84221A"	"Sadeli, Jeffrey"	"sadelij"	"4/30/2006 9:41:06 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"E73488E2C4274343BCB30BBD5BDB69F3"	"Spencer, Andrew"	"spenceal"	"5/6/2006 9:34:54 PM"	"1 hour"	"class"	"Continued to work on the wheels and the base during class time. Wednesdays are good days to work because we dont have anything else to do during class."
"EDDDC84430F44A6385B12EEF0266486C"	"Stachowski, Matthew"	"stachoma"	"5/4/2006 12:56:53 AM"	"2 hours"	"To put it bluntly I was playing around with LEGOs."	"That dividing bar is rather annoying, my best attempt to get over it worked no better than 25% of the time.  It's unfortunate that damaging the playing area is forbidden otherwise I might be tempted to attach a pair of small power tools to a robot and remove a section of the pipe."
"8D633DFB8E20495B9F130499CE49E572"	"Sullivan, Johnathan"	"sullivja"	"4/30/2006 12:37:49 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"CA677E7075BF4119A360A6486A913EC2"	"Tharp, Samuel"	"tharpsf"	"4/28/2006 12:12:28 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"1.5 hr in lab working on bot"	"I showed up a bit later than I would have liked to and fiddled round with the robot even less. I did bump into Andy and he showed me the new design for the movement. They discovered that maybe the wheels were not going to be as effective as originally planned. So they decided to build a treaded machine just like tank to crawl over the PVC pipes. Sounded like a good idea.  I finished up building my incredibly beautiful box by rigging the scooper to the front of the box. Tommorrow, I hope to able to put together some of indiviual pieces together. Andy wants to start coding by next Friday. Daunting task, but I think we can make it on time."
"F4959631684548B896EFB662D2B269AA"	"Thayer, Jordan"	"thayerjt"	"5/1/2006 1:03:37 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"DC8A97C15ED9496AA43A6B4D2B59899B"	"Turpyn, Michael"	"turpynmr"	"4/30/2006 9:34:53 PM"	"1 hour"	"Discussed problems with the robotics design that we had been working on.  "	"I talked to another group memeber about a problem with the design of our robots arms, specifically that the size was too great to fit inside the starting box.  We decided that the next time that we were in the lab that we would try and slim the size down."