Report Date: 5/18/2006 10:58:02 AM
Thursday, April 27 -- What work did you do for this class on this day? Grades  [DC2CD5F714F24A1A86FFB1DF42093191]
"RESPONSE ID"	"NAME"	"USERNAME"	"DATE SUBMITTED"	"FIELD_A098D09DDB444F1A9C32EE46BA838604"	"FIELD_12D7D15AE15243C78B55BD17C79520F1"	"FIELD_EFA4D3D81E22492DB1A5814598129F8D"
"7D7EAE524D7642D8A449C03929AC68F5"	"Achard, Christopher"	"achardct"	"4/30/2006 9:08:34 PM"	"2 hours"	"Ok, here we had class, and then I got excided about an idea for a bot that just pushes stuff off the side."	"I think our strategy is being taken by other teams too - we'll see how this works out."
"B0B0CF7D64B64DABB6671BF9BF22AC6A"	"Aigner, Thomas"	"aignerte"	"5/9/2006 10:40:39 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"class"	""
"7F87B41CFEDD47B391232F1DE67779BA"	"Barnard, Curtis"	"barnarcp"	"5/17/2006 3:05:49 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Class time. Thought of design possibilities throughout the day."	""
"EDFC62BF5C7841CEB7A7404060F8FEE4"	"Barthel, Paul"	"barthep"	"5/1/2006 12:33:20 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."	""
"D585D709DA444018B9B69311E71E2CF3"	"Blackburn, W. Ryan"	"blackbwr"	"4/30/2006 10:07:49 PM"	"2 hours"	"Worked in class and afterwards on the robot."	"Worked in class on the bot and a little after class ended, looking for parts seemed to take the longest. XP seems to be working well for the most part but I think my gourp will need to put in more work to get done in time."
"7D25CF6AD0304F658AF14AAF5E98C24A"	"Boyce, Jonathan"	"boycejs"	"5/1/2006 7:27:54 AM"	"3 hours"	"Went to class, worked on robot construction, and talked with people from other teams about the course."	"- We needed a ping pong ball, so I attempted to buy one from Chauncy's, but they only had 1 ping pong ball there and they needed it; so we used a trackball from a mouse. - I was not sucessful in purchasing a ping pong ball, but we did have a fallback plan. - We did extreme programming. - I learned about the written assignment that we're going to get soon, this is interesting because I'm looking forward to it for some reason I can't explain because I don't understand. - There were no take-away lessons today."
"38A7D91E74984BA0A5C41F05520CD369"	"Collins, Mary"	"collinmm"	"5/8/2006 12:11:32 PM"	"1 hour"	"I don't recall what I did this day."	""
"BC33A59BF04844F69C8C2F57AB1B9A5D"	"Dial, Scott"	"dialsa"	"5/12/2006 5:11:37 AM"	"1 hour"	"We met in class to discuss the work coming up for the course and to report our progress."	""
"3868D739AEC549A188E56D740D512CA1"	"Dunning, Nicholas"	"dunninnb"	"4/30/2006 1:55:31 PM"	"2 hours"	"I spent one hour in class and one hour in a group meeting."	"We are currently working on a way to fit our robot inside of the starting box.  We also plan to intergrate our ideas with our other group members early next week."
"B8F85CC27DB24268A5B5D605FCA0CD45"	"Ersson, Krishnamurti"	"erssonkk"	"4/28/2006 10:50:34 AM"	"3 hours"	"Today was spent in class working with the team and outside of class repairing a camera module for use."	"The main problem for today was that two of our team members did not show up for class. Unfortunately they have been faily non existant as of late and am at kind of a loss for how to deal with it. Because there were so few of us there we decided to abandon XP pair work for the day and just split up to accomplish a task by ourselves. This seemed to work alright.  It also turned out that the camera modules that Dr. Mutchler ordered were missing the controller board. After class I took the last controller board that our class already had and repaired it so we could begin using our camera immediately."
"53E061B52C8749D59ADE9C434B2FAFFA"	"Garrette, Kimbrell"	"garretkj"	"4/27/2006 6:14:48 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"I went to class did XP building the main robot with Chris.  He built while I made suggestions and got any parts that he needed.  I also plugged in Woodrow Wilson's robots so that they would be charged on Friday."	"We are having problems because there are only two robots and there are six of us so not everyone can be doing something in class.  We also do not have enough docking stations in the lab so we cannot program all the time when we want to."
"EBC8E8D26EA547D89E46A3FB714AEA2E"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/28/2006 7:58:35 AM"	"1 hour"	"Spent one hour in class working on the robot."	"Unfortunately, we didn't get as much done as we would've liked, because apparently there aren't enough (LEGO) motors to go around.  We're doing pretty well otherwise, but there's no way to test - and no way to finish what we've got - without motors that will work."
"278F0ADA84164CA09F544E02DC13A538"	"Hochstedler, Jason"	"hochstja"	"5/4/2006 9:59:32 AM"	"1 hour"	""	""
"B31CB599B53147339F8D092E9D7A2C54"	"Knutson, Erik"	"knutsoej"	"5/12/2006 11:57:23 AM"	"1 hour"	"In class, picked out partners and worked some on robot."	"Good thing this is the last log to fill in, I can't really remember anything about it."
"0A84B8CEC8E948D795E75FA265AAB75D"	"Kornienko, Ivan"	"kornieis"	"5/1/2006 9:26:10 PM"	"3 hours"	"Today we worked in class and out of class on the beyond bot ball project. "	"We trying employing more of the extreme programming techniques when working in the team setting on the project. Extreme programming seems to be working well overall though it is very hard for one person to watch while the other does all the work."
"D075AF2B6D40436C810FE8F55CDD293A"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/30/2006 2:24:58 PM"	"1 hour"	"Met with my team, and showed them my new height extender."	"The height extender uses hydralics to work, so that was a blast for some members of the group that liked playing with it.  However, we did figure out that the weight was too much with the ball basket on top of it, so I started trying to devise a way to make that work.  Unfortunately, I didn't really get very far with that."
"FF5C4B1BE1C741C8BB80F4D75E6705B7"	"Meyer, D. Christopher"	"meyerdc"	"4/27/2006 6:56:53 PM"	"4 hours"	"Today we had class and the team worked on the robot.  After class, I constructed most of a botball board and cut and assembled a beyond botball board."	"The work in class went alright.  Everyone on the team was doing something useful.  The XP approach worked for me as I was having some difficulites with the gears and Kimbrell was able to help."
"F737D7BEB80A4D4F8EBC0C76E0E6D136"	"Mohling, Nathan"	"mohlinna"	"5/15/2006 2:15:04 PM"	"1 hour"	"Went to class."	"Went to class."
"D5ADB2FD1DC24EC8B195E18E6DA5340F"	"Musial, Bryan"	"musialbk"	"5/1/2006 10:31:08 AM"	"2.5 hours"	"Held a class session today, and gave an update to Steve about the status of our project.  I found an implementation that will sled over top of the PVC pipe, but it needs some tweaking."	"Trial and error is a less effective, but valid approach to solving a problem."
"BB668F110DC34995B6F1D5471DE0EB85"	"Myung, Seho"	"myungs"	"4/27/2006 3:26:07 PM"	"2 hours"	"Got robot to get over PVC pipes and back. Now beginning work on grabber mechanism."	""
"477B32BF19EC49FCA1D3BDF36CD7C361"	"Nicklyn, Nicholas"	"nicklynj"	"4/30/2006 11:45:19 PM"	"1 hour"	"class"	"no real comments, worked with team, got basic robot structure assembled so we could have something that moved"
"C347C7281E1D4A1099A36183967C4FBF"	"Osborn, Jason"	"osbornj1"	"5/4/2006 4:01:12 PM"	"2 hours"	"further brainstorming and then actual designing of the claw portion of the wall. prototype construction."	"reached a reasonable compromise between secure grasp and space for the wall pole, saw some new issues with placing the apparatus (fitting the claw and pole over the pvp pipe)."
"C404D6F4D37E476C82DD744E905F52C6"	"Phillips, Jacob"	"phillijr"	"4/30/2006 8:22:13 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Class - working on our scoring robot"	""
"95DBEC99A18A490084793A8E9490EE55"	"Poehler, Lance"	"poehlelm"	"4/30/2006 2:01:27 PM"	"4 hours"	"On Thursday I went to L.J. Michaels, Inc. to pick up some parts for our robot.  I also completed the surveys for April 25th and 26th.  In class we continued to work on building our robot."	"Thursday was a pretty successful day.  Before School, I stopped by my office in town to pick up some parts that we are going to try to use on our robot.  We were originally going to use a mouse ball on our robot.  Once we got to class and we tried out the ball, we decided that it weight too much and would try something else.    We were on successful with getting one of our robots over the PVC pipe on Thursday.  There are still some other parts that will be added to our robot.  I’m hoping that when these parts are added that it won’t cause the robot to stall on the PVC pipe.  The main problem we are having with our second robot is that it is not pulling itself over the PVC pipe yet.  We have a couple of ideas we are going to try out on Monday."
"300398D8B0BD481BA9316274465D3F69"	"Sadeli, Jeffrey"	"sadelij"	"4/30/2006 9:41:39 PM"	"1 hour"	"in class"	"report to professor chenoweth about status on botball. continue working on bot."
"4EA48F500E9647AE8A7ED71EDE80D490"	"Spencer, Andrew"	"spenceal"	"5/6/2006 9:30:37 PM"	"1 hour"	"Worked on our beyond botball robot. "	"We're getting the wheels down pretty good. They seem to be working and are pretty compact. The only problem that I see is that they might be to centered and wont leave enough space for other things. We're probably going to have to build something for the other stuff to sit on. I think we'll be able to use a swivle wheel for this."
"16B627CC829F4368B4B604B85970CE69"	"Stachowski, Matthew"	"stachoma"	"5/4/2006 12:49:59 AM"	"2 hours"	"I attended class."	"We have a camera.  Unfortunately we don't have the component we need to connect it to the handyboard.  Hopefully the professor will order it and it will arrive in time to be of use."
"24DAC4955E4145BD9868C5EDBA27DD97"	"Sullivan, Johnathan"	"sullivja"	"4/30/2006 12:38:07 PM"	"0 hours"	"I was out of town."	""
"75D886E26ABE4D2BA4AC61B6E5F63335"	"Tharp, Samuel"	"tharpsf"	"4/28/2006 12:20:15 AM"	"3 hours"	"2 hrs before class working on bot  1 hr during class working on bot"	"The time spent before class was perfecting the box yet again. I ran into some trouble with stability and keeping the balls inside the box as well as the scooper arm not being the correct size to the morphing box. So, I added in more supports and made sure that there was no chance that the box was going to mold or even lose its precious cargo. I also made sure that if the box was properly tilted, that the balls would indeed fall out of the box and into the goal.  When class was in session, we basically started to put pieces together. The hydraulics that was put together was probably the most interesting item that was present to piece together. It worked on a basic push pump and level system. It would have worked perfectly with the box that I had made but we ran into two problems. First, the boxes support beams ran against the holding beams for the lift. Second, the lift wasn't strong enough to push the box up. It was too heavy. The first problem was easily fixible with the correct pieces lying around. I rigged a few little latches to hold the box into place. We also decided to either add in another hydaulic pump or put in a mechanical engine to make the lift work. Finally, the tread team started expanding the base of the robot to account for the huge devices we were going to put onto the machine.  On a final note, and bit of a sidenote brag, we noticed some of the other teams panicking when they realized that they too had miscalulated the size of the balls that they were supposed to pick up and scrambled back to the drawing boards. Good thing we found it earlier than they did."
"F51247C8DD2C4D3EA5F38ED2C6A41200"	"Thayer, Jordan"	"thayerjt"	"5/1/2006 1:09:00 PM"	"1 hour"	"I attended class."	""
"6E5AD79DF67C42428BBA3E9B21E060EE"	"Turpyn, Michael"	"turpynmr"	"4/30/2006 9:40:17 PM"	"2 hours"	"We completely redesigned the arms of the robot."	"Today didn't go as well as I would have liked.  We ended up scraping the idea of the life arms altogether because we couldn't get it to fit within the size constraints.  We decided that a scissors lift would much lighter and fit into the starting box, so we began construction on that.  Also, there are no motors in the class, so we will need to find some other source to use in our robots.  This is slightly frustrating, because our programming team cannot test the programs they are writing without a test motor."