Report Date: 5/9/2006 10:07:30 AM
Friday, April 28 through Sunday, April 30 -- What work did you do for this class on this day? Grades  [DCFB2120AA5145C483EAB6FA8DA2B2C4]
"RESPONSE ID"	"NAME"	"USERNAME"	"DATE SUBMITTED"	"FIELD_A997C2911A9D4BF3A51BF44717B7BF38"	"FIELD_8309A4823A784187A983259A4411BC05"	"FIELD_15ECDC826950464DA47C862FB405B6D4"
"CA41DCA8BE32426ABF6F85D9F6B4D65C"	"Achard, Christopher"	"achardct"	"4/30/2006 9:09:20 PM"	"3 hours"	"Unfortunatly, we need to work much more than we did, but I did spend some time doing work on the bots."	"I kinda want to take one home to program it, but I don't think we're at that point yet."
"BA1E1BF394BF47178C7E72598F8387C6"	"Barthel, Paul"	"barthep"	"5/1/2006 12:33:35 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."	""
"E191CED870C04D229465A8E9B88BF0AE"	"Blackburn, W. Ryan"	"blackbwr"	"5/4/2006 2:50:13 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"Worked a little with botball teams. Also filled out some of these surveys, along with contact with group members. Also thought of a research paper topic."	"Didn't do a whole lot over the weekend, looks like botball is winding up. We still have a lot to do in beyond botball though and thought of possible topics for paper."
"613949C27A1C4C92B5B35F2DCCECF91B"	"Boyce, Jonathan"	"boycejs"	"5/1/2006 7:31:03 AM"	"3 hours"	"Did programming practice, thought about control strategies, and talked with some other teams about their control strategies."	"- I encountered no problems. - I'll find out very soon how effective my programming practice was. - I did not work with my team over the weekend. - I learned that most of this should just be a process of abstraction: I just think about what I would need to do if I were the robot and that's the code I need to write. - Abstracting myself and thinking as if I were a different entity should be useful in the future as an aid to understanding."
"77B2C149C5ED4ECABA7524D3794BF776"	"Collins, Mary"	"collinmm"	"5/8/2006 12:11:51 PM"	"2 hours"	"I don't recall what I did these days."	""
"D6E9BD45C934494EBE1E6066740B7562"	"Dunning, Nicholas"	"dunninnb"	"5/2/2006 8:16:02 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"1D9B0002160246698F9E4D29B3F12CD4"	"Ersson, Krishnamurti"	"erssonkk"	"4/30/2006 11:22:06 PM"	"More than 12 hours"	"On Friday I spent the morning contacting the schools and finalizing plans for the trip to St. Louis. On Saturday three other students and I journeyed to St. Louis to meet with two teams, one in the morning and one in the afternoon."	"The team we met with in the morning had things very well under control. One of their people working wiht the students is very knowledgable about LEGOs and programming and he has had great success helping the girls to build very nice robots. Their team should be very successful at the competition. Unfortunately for us, this meant that we weren't really able to do much than watch them work and offer a few suggestions here and there. Though we did learn some neat tricks for building LEGOs and it helped us to better understand the competition itself.  The second team we visited with, however, was in trouble in terms of construction. They had gone through many designs and none were able to successfully climb over the pipes. The students had no trouble programming, but they were all very new to building LEGOs and their designs were rather flimsy. We helped them redesign both of their chassis and gave them pointers on structurally sound designs. We were much more productive with this team and felt that we were able to really help them out!  I look forward to seeing both teams in a few weeks at the competition! Hopefully our help will have paid off by then."
"B0448DF6D0D048B49C3DB12F0AFDAA12"	"Garrette, Kimbrell"	"garretkj"	"5/8/2006 8:40:07 PM"	"2 hours"	"I helped out at Woodrow Wilson."	"We had a major problem today.  Deagan took apart a piece of the robot that Alex built and she got really upset and cried.  I went into another room and talked to her about it and she seemed better.  I also talked to my mom this weekend about how to keep this from happening again because she was middle school teacher for many years."
"A6714798B8C14F5A83ECE986E33CD2D3"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/30/2006 9:53:02 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"30 min - brief discussion with teammate about current direction."	"My major concern at this point is that we're simply not going to finish in time for the competition on Saturday.  I think we'll be able to put something together, but the problem is just whether it will be any good at this point, particularly with our motor issues.  A program is no problem - I think the major issue is when we put it all together into the main robot."
"ACF3B3A5178D41769C22578E1855DCBB"	"Hochstedler, Jason"	"hochstja"	"5/4/2006 9:59:38 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"2382ACD85B544679ACC824CEF7AC19D4"	"Kornienko, Ivan"	"kornieis"	"5/8/2006 11:01:50 AM"	"3 hours"	"we worked more on the beyond bot ball work both with the whole team and on my own"	"With the team we continued to work on the beyond bot ball excercise. On my own I tought more about different strategies that we can take in the competitions"
"C6D3FBA57B9D48DE8E052C6A8C97EFED"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/30/2006 2:30:17 PM"	"2 hours"	"Came to "class" that period a little early, and met with Sam, who was the only guy there on a Friday.  He had devised a way to have two hydralics on my extender."	"Looking over Sam's design, it wasn't quite finished yet, but it showed that two hydralics could probably fit in the space we needed it to, which was good.  We also by this time got the ball basket and the extender fused together in a way so that it actually worked quite well.  Sam and I then talked a lot about integration issues.  We had our team separated into two groups, one was working on the base and the wheels, the other group had been working on the ball basket and height extension and all that sort of thing, which was the group I was in.  Looking at what we ahd, we saw that integration of our parts wasn't really going well, even the ball basket didn't integrate into the height extender that well without a bit of extra engineering, and we're even in the same group.   So, we're unsure of how everything is going to come together, but hopefully it will, eventually.  I also spent almost an hour filling these survey things out this weekend for the past week, which is a lot more than I've ever done in the past.  There was a lot of stuff I actually accomplished this week, I mean, things were actually _built_ for once, so I guess I had a lot more to talk about, this time."
"057E2F840552434988F54046346F4ED9"	"Meyer, D. Christopher"	"meyerdc"	"5/1/2006 1:30:44 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"Today I went to WWMS.  After I got back I updated the team's TWIKI for WWMS."	"There were some problems today wit ha couple students.  One student modified the bot because he didn't like how things looked.  This in turn caused some problems with the person who had modified it before.  The lesson in this is that there needs to be some rules about the students modifying others work.  i.e. They should ask for permission from the person who did the work before or one of the people in charge."
"CEA810841A7E4ADFA010B5F58653B725"	"Musial, Bryan"	"musialbk"	"5/1/2006 10:32:33 AM"	"2 hours"	"Still going back and forth with Goshen in their code and design.  They are moving right along!  Started looking for ideas about the paper topic I can write about."	"Finding a topic has been challenging and I am still looking."
"BB95E8B23A4444C8A9E603B827C5AC84"	"Myung, Seho"	"myungs"	"5/4/2006 3:19:22 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"Don't remember, I remember doing something with robot."	""
"0439E2E190DD4D2EB95054DDE89C227B"	"Nicklyn, Nicholas"	"nicklynj"	"4/30/2006 11:45:56 PM"	"1 hour"	"interactive C"	"worked with interactive C more, yet again trying to finalize ideas for accomplishing objective goals."
"5F0446724C9D41D2A97F16E7C1FDDADB"	"Osborn, Jason"	"osbornj1"	"5/4/2006 4:03:24 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"brainstorming usable material for the wall, movement of the bot to place the wall, actual design of the second pole of ths wall."	"considered keeping the second pole of the wall attached to the bot to be a viable option, could also have bot dive over the side to maintain tension.  would require a pole support in the wall fabric though."
"DDAC5311F9FB4E3EA9D8D3D0437E8F25"	"Phillips, Jacob"	"phillijr"	"4/30/2006 8:23:20 PM"	"1 hour"	"Completing this weeks' surveys. Preparing for upcoming week."	""
"74192BAE72E54439A60C069AF676F28B"	"Poehler, Lance"	"poehlelm"	"5/1/2006 12:42:26 PM"	"1 hour"	"In Friday I completed the survey for April 27th."	"On Friday I had to go to a Graduate Seminar and therefore I wasn�t able to go to Woodrow Wilson as normal.  On Monday I will be able to figure out how my team did.  I also tried to come up with a few solutions to get our robot over the PVC pipe.  On Monday I will be able to try them out and see if they will work."
"A6137968F22F428F8FC306B497E3EB22"	"Sadeli, Jeffrey"	"sadelij"	"4/30/2006 9:42:56 PM"	"4 hours"	"few hours on friday and saturday"	"finally finished the lego building section on the pickup bot. the other sub-group within my team will be dealing with "interference". :D"
"579AFE2DCD8748178D3B217A80F5254D"	"Spencer, Andrew"	"spenceal"	"5/6/2006 9:26:58 PM"	"12 hours"	"Drove to St. Louis, did stuff there, came back. "	"The first problem for me was getting up, I overslept a little bit and got to New. Res. a few minutes late. When we were leaving we noticed that the car we were driving in was getting really hot so we decided to switch to a different car. I had the only other care so I went back, got my keys, and then I drove instead.   Driving wasn't much of a problem, we had to stop and get gas, and made a few stops on the way (coffee, bathroom, etc) Finding the school wasn't that bad either, except mapquest gave us different directions than we got from the schools.  The first school we got to want that interesting. They already had most of their stuff done and there wasn't a lot that we could help with. We watched how they did things and learned a bit for ourselves, and made suggestions when we could.   Left there a bit before noon, ate lunch at taco bell, and drove to the next school.  The second school was more interesting. They were haveing a lot of problems with building their robots with legos. Mostly this was because they weren't building them sturdy enough so the gears wouldnt mesh properly. They were also building by just adding stuff on and didnt have much of an overall design. We helped them with this and they were going pretty good by the end.  They offered to take us out for ice cream, so we went to that and then drove back. We stopped once then too, to get more gas."
"13A51521F4DD443A9FE1E51A91E766C2"	"Spencer, Andrew"	"spenceal"	"5/6/2006 9:29:00 PM"	"More than 12 hours"	"1 hour working during fiday ~12 hours driving to the schools"	"Kept working on our design, made a platform for the basket to sit on. I'm a bit worried that it's going to be to heavy and the motors aren't going to give us enough power.  Visiting schools: The first problem for me was getting up, I overslept a little bit and got to New. Res. a few minutes late. When we were leaving we noticed that the car we were driving in was getting really hot so we decided to switch to a different car. I had the only other care so I went back, got my keys, and then I drove instead.   Driving wasn't much of a problem, we had to stop and get gas, and made a few stops on the way (coffee, bathroom, etc) Finding the school wasn't that bad either, except mapquest gave us different directions than we got from the schools.  The first school we got to want that interesting. They already had most of their stuff done and there wasn't a lot that we could help with. We watched how they did things and learned a bit for ourselves, and made suggestions when we could.   Left there a bit before noon, ate lunch at taco bell, and drove to the next school.  The second school was more interesting. They were haveing a lot of problems with building their robots with legos. Mostly this was because they weren't building them sturdy enough so the gears wouldnt mesh properly. They were also building by just adding stuff on and didnt have much of an overall design. We helped them with this and they were going pretty good by the end.  They offered to take us out for ice cream, so we went to that and then drove back. We stopped once then too, to get more gas."
"AC7119F38ABA4CBFAA23253D74DE48DD"	"Stachowski, Matthew"	"stachoma"	"5/4/2006 12:47:59 AM"	"3 hours"	"I familiarized myself with the camera API just in case we actually manage to get the part we need to make it work."	"The API seems easy enough although it seems like we'll need to hook the camera up to a PC for calibration since the handyboard doesn't have a nice built in screen like the XBC.  Hopefully we'll get the part we need by the end of next week which gives us a week to get everything ready."
"0E0BA682EF694F72B7AC0FB8D8FC0440"	"Sullivan, Johnathan"	"sullivja"	"4/30/2006 12:38:51 PM"	"1 hour"	"I filled out the past weeks surveys.  I continued to work on thoughts of how to build the robotic arms."	""
"0124FFD38A2343AA8EAF015C1A8E3242"	"Thayer, Jordan"	"thayerjt"	"5/1/2006 12:55:13 PM"	"5 hours"	"I stayed after class to work on the rolling bridge robot, I had some issues with the middle supponts which I'm still trying to resolve."	"The extreeme lego thing doesn't seem to work very well unless you can break the project down into parts.  Watching someone assemble legos from a blue print is tearfully boring."
"473F3E548CBD446C8B31E1BE12359E5B"	"Turpyn, Michael"	"turpynmr"	"4/30/2006 9:48:04 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"Completed clerical aspect and document maintenence for the class.  We also briefly discussed the issue that we were having with the motors."	"While we are having some problems implementing our design, our team agreed that the XP system that we are using has been effective so far. "