Report Date: 5/18/2006 10:47:57 AM
Thursday, March 9 -- What work did you do for this class on this day? Grades  [4F9F4727FCB4483097977B857DAE0ED9]
"RESPONSE ID"	"NAME"	"USERNAME"	"DATE SUBMITTED"	"FIELD_367A02CED3494C4CA6864930B24F772E"	"FIELD_BECF19BC458D4AA39CEC62B914C10298"	"FIELD_37AB6D2A4F8B4DEB93981B55E0E4DD88"
"A1D1A8CBC6874849A50D596B7446316C"	"Achard, Christopher"	"achardct"	"3/10/2006 8:26:22 AM"	"2 hours"	"The first hour was class time, and the second hour was me just playing around with interactive C."	"Well, interactive C is special C.  using those documents is ok, but still, all the commands are kind of funny.  It's not too bad though, when you get used to it."
"7CDC28C201E648ECAE83DC5C2C9F47A5"	"Aigner, Thomas"	"aignerte"	"3/12/2006 4:37:33 PM"	"1 hour"	"class"	"Played a little more with cross beaming and chose a team name"
"1F59C38A6F0C437E86F1CDBEA150B142"	"Barnard, Curtis"	"barnarcp"	"3/13/2006 7:51:59 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"In class exercise of getting familiar of ways to use the equipment."	"Discussed with teamates the way things worked. I had a little hard time remembering some of the details from the day before when we learned about our topic, but it seemed fine. Also, some general brainstorming about how each component could be useful was done outside of class."
"68885ADEF3444DEDB28EE59BBF996000"	"Barthel, Paul"	"barthep"	"3/13/2006 3:10:05 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"class and arrangements with teammates"	""
"6CB8A309821745F98324A4BF47F4FDFB"	"Blackburn, W. Ryan"	"blackbwr"	"3/9/2006 9:15:32 PM"	"2 hours"	"Class - experimented with software and parts. Looked up new school we have. Tried to schedule visits and group members that will go to their school."	"We will be very busy and we have 4 schools now with only a group of 5 members. We have more work to do than other groups so we will be busy. We came up with a team name and it worked well and no one disagreed."
"7589CE9181F04D498FA03E88D652D5A3"	"Blankenbaker, Zachariah"	"blankezd"	"3/13/2006 12:18:45 PM"	"2 hours"	"We spent time in class looking at Interactive C and coming up with a group name.  I also spent time outside of class looking at Interactive C."	"We had a few problems getting the robot to work, but after looking at the help files, it worked fine.  "
"C506C2DA856C4277A98E5601A56F30CD"	"Boyce, Jonathan"	"boycejs"	"3/10/2006 11:22:05 AM"	"2 hours"	"Went to class, filled out Wednesday's survey, talked about the class and about the pluses and minuses of your botball team being far away as opposed to close, and thought about team building exercises during work."	"- We talked about how it would be a little bit harder to communicate to the teams far away, but that AOL Instant Messenger is a good workaround for that. (As long as the kids have internet access) - Most of the work I did was theoretical, so I'll get feedback on it once we try to apply the techniques we discussed. - I was working with people from other teams in a brainstorming environment. - I did not know that people found coming to a consensus to be difficult. I've never had a problem with that before, usually either one of two things happens: 1. My idea is better than everyone elses and we agree right away to do that. 2. There several ideas that are pretty good; I never had a problem abandoning my idea for others that have similar degrees of goodness. - I think that it is a good idea to talk to people from different teams (departments, companies, countries) and play your ideas off them as well. I mean, you're not going to lose information from doing that, and you might learn something valuable in the process."
"5373708229984300AA64097157FD6375"	"Chvojicek, Benjamin"	"chvojibc"	"3/10/2006 1:33:46 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"Experimented with botball equipment."	"Experimented and played with motors already attached to a working robot."
"B54D8B979B30409FB9AD3333B6A803C5"	"Collins, Mary"	"collinmm"	"3/12/2006 5:27:30 PM"	"2 hours"	"Spent time in class and doing class activities and spent time out of class thinking and talking about the project with others."	"We encounted problems coming up with a team name.  Only one person had a name for us, and it was kind of odd, so most other teammates didn't care for it.  We didn't come up with other names though, and so we have the one name that was suggested.    I talked with people about the project and schools.  We talked about distance and communications between schools far away.  We didn't really accomplish anything, we just kind of mused about stuff."
"37961FEF8E0B4C3EB08B796305F3A9F1"	"Dial, Scott"	"dialsa"	"3/12/2006 1:10:47 PM"	"1 hour"	"We met in class today to become familiar with the botball equipment."	"In order to be succesful working with the botball equipment, we needed to divide the labor which was difficult to do with a trivial task. It is important then to recognize what tasks are divisible."
"334C77A51F2E403FBB6021C9F307A3D5"	"Dunning, Nicholas"	"dunninnb"	"3/12/2006 2:50:19 PM"	"3 hours"	"I spent one hour in class and another 2 hours researching teaming activities on the web"	"I found many good teaming activities and thought of a few more on my own.  I would like to learn more so that we could have as many activities as possible in case the students dont respond well to some activities"
"4F024140B2954A579C2F34BF36B0DDBD"	"Ersson, Krishnamurti"	"erssonkk"	"3/10/2006 10:16:53 AM"	"1 hour"	"In class we participated in a brief visualization exercise, and then completed the previously started Jigsaw exercise."	"For the Jigsaw exercise it was rough getting started for most of the groups. For my group (the camera) we didn't get the materials for a little while. Once we had them we spent the remaining time trying to figure out how to get the camera working. Unfortunately we were unsuccessful, however we did find where the documentation about the camera was located. So at least now we can learn more about the camera on our own time. Team interactions were minimal, as it was mostly us breaking into other groups. I'm not sure when we will meet (if at all) this weekend. Maybe I will send an email out to get a better idea of what the team wants to do."
"A59C5DFB3589454280F4D279CEC67CA0"	"Garrette, Kimbrell"	"garretkj"	"3/10/2006 12:54:41 AM"	"1 hour"	"I went to class."	"I learned more about the robots."
"23CFAEF0CB534038A09571D65FBB40D9"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/10/2006 12:31:04 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"50 minutes - class 30 minutes - discussed robotics at lunch"	"No particular problems. The "team exercise" we did was a bit odd, but it actually worked out pretty well.  I was surprised at how it worked to convey a positive spirit. When we finished the jigsaw puzzle exercise, it mostly worked out pretty well.  I got a good feeling for what most every piece of equipment does (except "other sensors" - our team member doing that part was absent).  I think it worked out pretty well."
"DAE48A0269A24BF692FC8DDB61009A1A"	"Hochstedler, Jason"	"hochstja"	"3/13/2006 6:33:14 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"7DB6EE7F7316463C993FDEE873240105"	"Hudson, Marshall"	"hudsonmc"	"3/19/2006 11:35:13 PM"	"1 hour"	"Class"	"Further familiarzation with the botball equipment. "
"1729D6DE33EC49E58C185D40943B2361"	"Knutson, Erik"	"knutsoej"	"3/10/2006 10:14:33 AM"	"1 hour"	"In class we discussed the different compents for building the lego robots within our team."	"Nothing deep here, just a basic understanding of each of the parts of what we will be using."
"5BD7C4A2EB4D44E4A4405E8D065EA6A5"	"Kornienko, Ivan"	"kornieis"	"3/12/2006 9:21:13 AM"	"4 hours"	"we worked in class on some more team building activities as well as getting to know the legos."	"In and out of class I thought more about what will have to be done for this projet and how us teaching the kids how to use the legos can be improved"
"85FF75910D8244669BCCCC4AEA0FBDC4"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/12/2006 4:00:55 AM"	"1 hour"	"Attended class, and installed Interactive C on my laptop."	"I learned more about Interactive C from class, including how motors, servos, and the sleep function all work."
"4F45A07CF160457E813DCBA663BB119B"	"Meyer, D. Christopher"	"meyerdc"	"3/9/2006 5:30:24 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"I worked with my team during our initial programming on a handy-board.  I also looked more into the proejct the team will be working on for Beyond Botball."	"Since there was only one handy-board and one computer to program it on as a group we played around on them getting the motor and buzzer to work.  Learning about the devices as a team isn't effective for myself as just sitting down and doing the programming for myself.  I really didn't seem to pick up to much.  Also the "too many cooks in the kitchen" analogy fit today as we all were telling the person at the computer what to do."
"D2EC7065E91743FC8430E46AE84DF73C"	"Mohling, Nathan"	"mohlinna"	"3/13/2006 11:16:28 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"5DA86A11FCBE4499B96FED948EE01D09"	"Musial, Bryan"	"musialbk"	"3/10/2006 2:19:33 AM"	"2.5 hours"	"Today we met in class and continued the Jigsaw exercise and followed up with additional reading of the manual included with Interactive C.  I will continue to use that manual as a reference."	"I discovered how to use basic Interactive C commands and have several new thing to try when I have the opportunity to do more testing/learning in the lab.  Assuming my schedule has no additional suprises, that will be able to work on learning IC's implementation."
"B7F5797B6D06472A91887275782D485D"	"Myung, Seho"	"myungs"	"3/12/2006 9:25:15 PM"	"2 hours"	"Spent an hour in class playing around with the board and parts. Figured out how to make motors spin, the display work and the board to beep. Also, talked with some friends from other groups about the parts they were learing about and groups they were helping with."	"Playing around with the board was fun. It was nice to see programming commands make something happen in the real world instead of just computer outputs. Reminds me of the stuff I did with FIRST in high school when we first started playing with the boards, and I didn't really know much about programming back then."
"291AD303A6CE469797B1211470C4C544"	"Myung, Seho"	"myungs"	"3/18/2006 1:06:22 PM"	"2 hours"	"Shared our team building activity with another, as well as reviewing theirs. Also played around with the camera in the botball kit."	""
"950C2DC1B5634B129EC9A9D6FBAA090B"	"Nicklyn, Nicholas"	"nicklynj"	"3/13/2006 7:56:46 AM"	"2 hours"	"discussed robotic programming more in class; programmed the robot during class to play music using the beep command, read more about interactive C"	"fairly straightforward from previous answer, just gained more experience with interactive C syntax and usage with the programmable robot board thing.  Accomplished the feat of programming a song onto the robot board"
"6E16DD77312D452392B51A3105342DA6"	"Osborn, Jason"	"osbornj1"	"3/11/2006 4:19:02 PM"	"1 hour"	"classtime in f217, we spent most of the time finishing up what we were doing on tuesday, then coming back to our groups and basically sharing the knowledge. "	"during this time we discovered that there was not an obvious command in the programming language for a servo, but there was for a motor."
"1C66AC3C4DAE4D4EBF0357A45A39880A"	"Pethick, Lindsay"	"pethiclc"	"3/12/2006 4:15:38 PM"	"2 hours"	"Went to class, experimented a bit with the programming aspect of the robots. Spoke with my teammates about the plan for out robot, talked with some other people in the class about their take on the material we'd learned."	"We had some interesting problems with attatching the motor to the main board of the machine and trying to get it to run. After some initial confusion on how exactly the motor command was supposed to be used, we got the motor to run, but couldn't get it to stop. Occasionally it would run corectly the first time, but when we tried to reproduce the results it would seem to revert to whatever it had been doing before. We finally concluded that the board was probably low on power for one reason or another."
"09510AED93DE4F9A9B080D2A94D4FE2F"	"Phillips, Jacob"	"phillijr"	"3/12/2006 10:39:39 AM"	"1 hour"	"Class"	"We worked on getting familiar with the legos."
"14E17818D6B94ABA8D754D587C90D9B7"	"Poehler, Lance"	"poehlelm"	"3/10/2006 11:42:48 AM"	"3 hours"	"In the morning I sent out a group email and then completed the survey for March 8th.  Later I received emails from the team and was able to update the class summary file.  In class we discussed guided visualization thru high school, choose our team name, and practiced with robots.  After class I sent out an email asking for information that was written down in class today.  I also added one hour because I forgot to take into account when I was completing the surveys for March 6th and 7th.  Each of those surveys took about 30 minutes to complete."	"March 8th was really the first day we started to work with the software.  I thought that it was a good start and a the first real introduction to the robots.  I would really like to have more time as a group to start designing a functioning robot.  This is something that we will start next week.  I was also happy to finally receive emails from the entire group.  Our group decided to call ourselves “Rosebots.”  I do believe that our group will begin to function more as a team now that we have a better idea of where we are going."
"7651F6C323BA40D5BAB6F1BD4B071956"	"Sadeli, Jeffrey"	"sadelij"	"3/9/2006 7:52:00 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"1 hour in class 0.5 hour in reflections"	"off() doesn't turn the robot off! :) hahaha."
"BEC03E2E59E84C9EA335F287A6BEDB54"	"Spencer, Andrew"	"spenceal"	"3/10/2006 12:57:44 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Class, looking around at IC"	"during class we had some problems at first figuring out what we needed to do with IC to get vision to work. After a little bit we started getting stuff figured out but we ran out of time when we were first getting interesting stuff done. "
"5E8FC932183A474B97929226F708B4A2"	"Stachowski, Matthew"	"stachoma"	"3/12/2006 5:46:58 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"I attended class and briefly reflected upon the team building exercises we've used so far."	""
"708AE3C74A9B400CBBE47664FA3C6671"	"Sullivan, Johnathan"	"sullivja"	"3/10/2006 8:52:15 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"I attended class.  During Class I worked with a camera in an attempt to get it to work.  We were unable to get the  camera to work. I continued reading on the way to program the camera in interactive C."	"The first problem we encountered was that there was a broken pin in the camera slot for one of the boards.  Secondly the cameras were not even in the room at the start of the class.  Third we had to download Interactive C and find the manual on the Camera. After reading a little more on the camera I believe that I am closer to getting it to successfully work, but it will probably still take upwards of 30-60 minutes to finally get the camera to take one picture.  "
"E2BB724402D345388FA6140385A1C1F6"	"Tharp, Samuel"	"tharpsf"	"3/10/2006 12:55:55 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"1 hour in class  .5 hours continuing discovering more stuff about IC"	"My team name of I.R.E.N.E. (the Irresponsible Robotic Engineers of the New Era/Error) was well received. However, it was rather difficult for those in which the entire team naming process kind of jumped on them without them knowing. Good thing I saw it coming or we might have ended up with a... less than desirable team name. Not much else to report. I did more research into what the specialized functions where for IC and robotics and the relative speeds, rotations, etc where for the individual commands. I'm still trying to figure out for myself how to make some of these robots I will help design and move along to be more of a combat drone than a peace loving, toxic moving, botguy saving machine. Must be the destructive man in me talking. I wonder if a quick flip forklift procedure to work. I figure if the opposing bot cant move or do anything because it isn't on its treads/wheel/etc. we should have more than enough to win the competition. (Though I understand that I am definitely not KISS)"
"68CD8C5F48F94E8B81A9C4CB0FF736B0"	"Thayer, Jordan"	"thayerjt"	"3/14/2006 9:57:28 AM"	"2 hours"	"I attended class then played around with Interactive C later that night.  Mostly I was refamiliarizing myself with the intricacies of C."	"It's been a while since I've played around with C.  I'm so used to the looping structure from Java and C# that it was hard to go back to a purely procedural language, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it again now though.  "
"89707ED5C0BE456F92D0DA67A83A9B98"	"Turpyn, Michael"	"turpynmr"	"3/9/2006 11:46:32 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Our group met and shared the knowledge we'd gained from the jigsaw activity.  We then began to program one of the chip brains."	"We took turns explaining what we'd learned, pausing for questions in between each explanation.  Everyone seemed to have a good understanding of all of the concepts by the end of the session, so I'd consider it a success.  We also had a group consensus to change our team name to The A-Team."