April_17_Monday:"035AE15344CA42DB8CCAADDDFF2F20C2" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 2:48:55 PM" "2 hours" "Spent time in class. Also thought about bot design at lunch and dinner." "" April_18_Tuesday:"7F173182577D40E1B5B319F811B45EAA" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 4:29:15 PM" "0.5 hour" "General thoughts about robot design ideas." "" April_19_Wednesday:"0AF961CE4E36466880EDA3FAE0B860AF" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 4:31:02 PM" "0 hours" "" "" April_20_Thursday:"8FB3E5FE44494A119A16FB39A0DEE53E" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 3:01:52 PM" "1.5 hours" "In class time. Thinking about design during lunch." "" April_21_through_April_23_Friday:"71C521BD76BE46269998D953EED7A684" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 2:41:17 PM" "3 hours" "Thought about robot design and examples that could be used to help our teams." "Starting to scratch the idea of multiple robots." April_24_Monday:"EA1DAEED058D411B8D1116E39095F2A9" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 2:49:33 PM" "1.5 hours" "Spent time in class. Thought of design ideas during the day." "" April_25_Tuesday:"ECE7E084E3C94D02B45C93448F7562C8" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 4:29:34 PM" "0.5 hour" "Genreal ideas on ways to design our robot." "" April_26_Wednesday:"C462E5F4CD4B447BA903E2D1A605C5D5" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 4:31:07 PM" "0 hours" "" "" April_27_Thursday:"7F87B41CFEDD47B391232F1DE67779BA" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 3:05:49 PM" "1.5 hours" "Class time. Thought of design possibilities throughout the day." "" April_28_through_April_30_Friday:"7E8A5B09585046E0B0E83A1368470776" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 2:42:55 PM" "5 hours" "Read some technical articles on robotics. Thought about robot design and strategies. Had a team meeting." "" April_3_Monday:"6EB3C375EC5F475A9A195D85145B0F77" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/20/2006 12:05:25 AM" "1.5 hours" "In class work. Thought about designs." "Not much to note. Debating ways to build our bots effectively." April_4_Tuesday:"B112D22A259249F7A03E46E26FF2E170" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/20/2006 12:09:20 AM" "1.5 hours" "In class exercises. Discussion of our robot. Discussion of helpful website for our team." "It is a little hard to split up the work for the assignment. We seem to be gearign up more for the competition and designing our robot now." April_5_Wednesday:"F5A25349D77A407B8EB8757BA3EAA144" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/20/2006 12:10:36 AM" "0 hours" "" "" April_6_Thursday:"EA13996BCC0D4222B4FA6861F3A04CC7" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/20/2006 12:10:22 AM" "0 hours" "" "" April_7_through_April_16_includes_all_of_spring_break_Friday:"EC3CE12BCE514E6DBCEC112098E0B7F4" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/19/2006 11:09:15 PM" "0 hours" "Busy busy over break" "" April_7_through_April_16_includes_all_of_spring_break_Friday:"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..." March_10_through_March_12_Friday:"84DC5712FDDA4499BEB9BA091DE8E16E" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/13/2006 7:52:40 PM" "0 hours" "My weekend was devoted to funeral arrangements." "" March_13_Monday:"D153CC86947B46CABB64DB4125F286A6" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/15/2006 9:33:03 PM" "0 hours" "Out of town." "" March_14_Tuesday:"DB74CD1B26E84BA3B2EA0C4B899DF257" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/15/2006 9:34:48 PM" "1 hour" "Got back in contact with my team. Asked what I missed and if there was anything that needed doing." "Getting back in to the swing of things. Trying to figure out exactly where the group is at and what needs to be done. Looking over ANGEL for missed materials etc." March_15_Wednesday:"1C65647C069C456F8D4E471762C20259" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/21/2006 5:44:33 PM" "0 hours" "" "" March_16_Thursday:"F16C9B13778B4AF39EE36019AB01EE45" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/21/2006 5:48:38 PM" "1.5 hours" "Spent classtime discussing our team building activity and the activity of another team. Also took some time afterwards thinking how our activity could be improved." "In practice, our activity was a little less organized than we had hoped. We had a very limited number of pieces to demonstrate with, and it made it pretty difficult. Our activity will have to be modified slightly depending on the situation it will be used in." March_16_Thursday:"4591304671D54E98A9591E9DB2E9F5B8" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 3:54:01 PM" "1.5 hours" "Spent classtime discussing our team building activity and the activity of another team. Also took some time afterwards thinking how our activity could be improved. This reflection was completed on time, however angel failed to recognize it as complete, even though it appears to be submitted already, and so I resubmitted it." "In practice, our activity was a little less organized than we had hoped. We had a very limited number of pieces to demonstrate with, and it made it pretty difficult. Our activity will have to be modified slightly depending on the situation it will be used in. " March_17_through_March_19_Friday:"8418C45B6A9044F8AD379D2DBBBB9EA2" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/21/2006 3:57:38 PM" "3.5 hours" "I came to the botball meeting and assisted a teacher in getting her package, testing, and answering questions she had. I also spent time thinking about methods of interaction between us and our groups." "I encountered the problem of not knowing as much about the Botball equipment as several of the teachers that were there. I think I still did a good job of explaining what I saw as best I could. I learned lots about the new botball controlls and computers. I have been thinking that I would like to try and use alot of onlien communication with the teams assigned to us. E-mail, instant messenger, and even video streaming maybe." March_20_Monday:"2DB9CC7C6ADF404DBFE70A1BD0F13C95" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/21/2006 4:09:20 PM" "1.5 hours" "In class exercise talking about the communication we had with our teams. Discussign with team members." "Most of our teams seem pretty interrested in gettign help. I'm pretty excited about possibly using video conferencing in our project. I had very little chance to talk to anyone we will be working with, so I had to gather lots of information from my teammates. I probably should have come back to the meeting at a time where the teachers were more available to talk." March_21_Tuesday:"67E5A3B7F856485B96C46F0AA5D03B00" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/22/2006 7:57:33 PM" "1 hour" "Communicated with the team about contacting the teachers. Thought of ways to deliver our exercise." "Aparently some of the teams are going to be pretty hard to stay in contact with. It seems that several teachers never responded to calls and e-mails. Going to hard to keep contact going. I might need a little bit of information about the classes and sizes to determine how the exercise should be carried out." March_22_Wednesday:"7826F60702194C03A36ECC0D19A5AD72" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/28/2006 6:02:05 PM" "0 hours" "" "" March_23_Thursday:"232C98F206DE4481942DD2F865FA6F12" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/28/2006 6:03:23 PM" "1 hour" "In class exercises." "Having a hard time getting in contact with group members. Agreeing on format for large scale group activity for teams." March_24_through_March_26_Friday:"B1A593DD599B4C89872FC51FAF1BC787" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/1/2006 11:45:46 PM" "3 hours" "Had a long team meeting and discussed the large group project." "Some problems finding a good way to divide the project we agreed on. We finally came to a conclusion to allow for independent work, but I think the things we are doing requires some collaboration. Should all work out though." March_27_Monday:"2ED1DD1F7A18420F993BCB3C0768FF8A" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/1/2006 11:47:21 PM" "2 hours" "In class exercise on tWiki. Some general thinking about what kind of robot to build." "tWiki seems like a really neat and interresting tool, but I doubt we will really end up using it much. We generally collaborate with each other pretty well over aim, and that seems simpler and faster (the pages took awhile to load)." March_28_Tuesday:"9EB6AD05DD764585950435470AF49006" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/1/2006 11:53:56 PM" "2 hours" "Discussion with group members about ways to build our bot." "Had a really cool idea involving multiple bots. Seems like a really interresting strategy. A neat idea for keeping balls out of their container, and a nice idea for collecting the balls. Probably too complicated, but a nice idea." March_29_Wednesday:"B6D21648D01E4FB890DD06F779D86D92" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/1/2006 11:54:07 PM" "0 hours" "" "" March_30_Thursday:"9248ADCFB6E04FE9AB847D7F52A6C319" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/1/2006 11:55:02 PM" "1 hour" "Thought about the competition at lunch and dinner, thinking about the multiple bot idea." "The idea seems quite unfeasable unfortunately." March_31_through_April_2_Friday:"BC9AA685F68D42D8B05D7F8F6C8FC473" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/8/2006 9:10:16 AM" "1 hour" "Thought about BotBall design" "Thinking about multiple bot designs. Likely too complicated for the scope of this class." March_6_Monday:"4F0A9C0D20BF4C1F86590820A12241E2" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/8/2006 11:20:58 PM" "2 hours" "In class exercises. Chat room team meeting. Discussed and wrote asigned paragraphs." "I thought the chat room meeting was a really great idea. We managed to get alot of work done from the convenience of our own rooms. Occasionally there were long silent pauses and some delayed responses, but in general it was a really nice breath of fresh air to have a chatroom meeting." March_7_Tuesday:"0E6CE2FDDAA2447A9B9E24E7861EC657" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/8/2006 11:22:56 PM" "1 hour" "Met in class and participated in the exercise on learning about the botball components." "The exercise seemed to be a pretty good idea. Everyone got to collabroate and bring their knowledge back to their groups. A good way to reinforce the small team, and the whole class as a team as well. An idea like this would be really useful for our own botball groups we are advising." March_8_Wednesday:"A8F7BB3F4E7143EBB769F9055A6BE920" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/13/2006 7:49:47 PM" "0 hours" "" "" March_9_Thursday:"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." May_10_Wednesday:"E47733AB4C13498195CEFF444A708BC0" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 4:32:21 PM" "4 hours" "Met with team members and did some serious wouk on creating our bot." "Having a hard time coordinating our efforts. Some basic programs have been written using extreme programming, and it seems to work quite well. Every once in awhile we switch who codes and who assists. Saved quite a bit of time debugging and finding errors." May_11_Thursday:"B642A55DE4314F5594351D07F5BEDDAD" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 3:55:02 PM" "1.5 hours" "In class time. Thought about design and helpful programs for our team." "" May_12_through_May_14_Friday:"5719ACAAE60A49968C698DB3D482136F" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 2:44:56 PM" "More than 12 hours" "Attended the botball competition. Made some finishing toutches on the bot." "It was fun to see all the interresting designs the highschoolers had. Some of them made really great use of the cameras. It was really interresting to see all of their robots." May_15_Monday:"FF7C3AB6A9934D1E87F8C0244FE878B4" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 2:46:38 PM" "6 hours" "Some rollover from the previous weekend. Did lots of work on the bot. " "Our bot had several little accidents, and a few total breakdowns. Finally settled on a lower scoring, but more reliable strategy." May_1_Monday:"48ACEE63CA8046629EACE4CFED321AC7" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 2:54:27 PM" "1.5 hours" "Spent time in class. Misc. ideas about our bot throughout the day." "" May_2_Tuesday:"E686495958A24F06A7B6C1D3F13CD477" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 4:30:35 PM" "0.5 hour" "General thinking about our teams, and botball sccoring strategies." "" May_3_Wednesday:"BC3262F3ADA545C8B264C24D354A858D" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/8/2006 10:55:33 PM" "3 hours" "We had a group meeting in which we attempted to start pulling the construction together. Spent alot of time building." "Using the motors we have is quite frustrting. I wish me had the ones pre-attached to lego pieces. We had to seriously change out strategy, as time really is not allowing us to do exactly what we want." May_4_Thursday:"4EF084CCAE2B46709CE9B78F6B2C3C6B" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 4:25:19 PM" "0.5 hour" "Some thoughts on robot design possibilities..." "" May_5_through_May_7_Friday:"3EF30DBA80B14040BDB3A1A714C779C9" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 2:48:18 PM" "4 hours" "Talked with team members about the bot. Did some work on the design." "We were not nearly as centralized as we needed to be. Most of us had seperate ideas on how the bot would finally work." May_8_Monday:"59BB77D14EC44896AA5F1BEC586EE98A" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 3:01:10 PM" "1.5 hours" "Class time. Talked to teammates about planning to get more work done on our bot." "Getting closer to the competition and we are a bit worried about how complete our bot will actually be." May_9_Tuesday:"168C3159F1034714B69B770E43C86007" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "5/17/2006 4:30:56 PM" "0.5 hour" "Mics. thoughts about our bot, and ways to effectively score." ""