April_17_Monday:"C118BFDA69D14ADAB351212FB0913495" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/22/2006 4:19:51 PM" "1 hour" "breif in class tlak, then broke up into pairs and starting working on beyond botball" "started brainstorming how to build our "wall bot" and how to get it over the pvc pipe without tipping over." April_18_Tuesday:"B4F38CF85F0F4A23AF2020B4973750D6" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/22/2006 4:20:05 PM" "0 hours" "" "" April_19_Wednesday:"0A43B08B6F1C4E6780EAEEE03A37C1D5" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/22/2006 4:22:10 PM" "0.5 hour" "we essensially corresponded with each other to decide who was gonna go to hamilton SE this saturday." "only 4 of us could go at first, one other discovered other activities we're planned for him this saturday, leaving us with 3 who could come." April_20_Thursday:"0DFED215967C4641B43E45E6E944B98B" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/22/2006 4:24:26 PM" "1 hour" "continued working on our bots." "brainstormed some more on how to get our particular bot over the pvc pipe, then started some prototype building." April_21_through_April_23_Friday:"00F6ABE64F5B4B2884C143EC5560437E" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/22/2006 4:15:34 PM" "7 hours" "traveled to hamilton southeastern high school and helped the students there with their botball stuff." "encountered a problem of getting lost along the way, we solved this by stopping and asking directions. we also planned to have 4 of us go, but one had other things come up in conflict with the trip, and another got sick and could not go." April_24_Monday:"B003627C881E48978B4F3A29E5EEAE1C" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/25/2006 2:46:11 PM" "1.5 hours" "classtime, plus some more working on our robot design" "we had trouble getting the bot over the pvc pipes, used a combination of the wheels and sled to try to get over, met with limited success." April_25_Tuesday:"0A20B06240A0403C8B697A3E0B3DAD4E" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/25/2006 2:47:29 PM" "1.5 hours" "met in the CSSE lab to work on the robot" "upgraded our bot to 4 wheel drive, still haivng some issues with getting over the pipe consistently." April_26_Wednesday:"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." April_27_Thursday:"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)." April_28_through_April_30_Friday:"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." April_3_Monday:"87E111EF3F2040228244BF9617300EF5" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/17/2006 2:47:48 PM" "2 hours" "class time then finished up our interactive C "cheat sheet" for our schools" "nothing major" April_4_Tuesday:"D25B185270124C94B4E86CD833DD4EC2" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/17/2006 2:48:00 PM" "0 hours" "" "" April_4_Tuesday:"4EC047BBDF184D0DA959D9AB204483C6" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/17/2006 2:49:33 PM" "1 hour" "classtime (forgot we moved it to tuesday from thursday)" "nothing major that i remember" April_5_Wednesday:"80696DE93F1D4700BCD2539340D18AE9" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/17/2006 2:48:52 PM" "1 hour" "i realized that a significant portion of my work on the IC "cheat sheet" was incorrect so i fixed it and emailed teh corrected stuff to the rest of my team" "nothin major" April_6_Thursday:"529ECBF546474E8C9AF82E681C5F87A1" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/17/2006 2:49:55 PM" "0 hours" "" "" April_7_through_April_16_includes_all_of_spring_break_Friday:"FCC2DB93227544B7B3D583B659B928FC" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/17/2006 2:50:59 PM" "4 hours" "brainstormed on beyond botball over break." "collectivly we came up with ideas for 3 bots to implement our strategy of making the other team lose points." March_10_through_March_12_Friday:"06C91F0F20DD479A8F4C8EBB6E926FEA" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "3/15/2006 10:53:50 PM" "0.5 hour" "a brief lookover of interactive C for the bot programming." "no problems" March_13_Monday:"1C3199DA7A064BFBBCD0566E57150783" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "3/15/2006 10:58:43 PM" "1 hour" "classtime, the come up with bad ideas for interacting with our teams then good ones to counter them. some more familiarizing with the materials (cameras, motors and servos)" "still havent found the commands that manipulate the servos. we are working out who will have which responsibility when we start working with our teams (who will be the motors guy, the crossbeaming guy, etc.)" March_14_Tuesday:"5C30238A7D7E4904A2A50BA24D1C5226" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "3/15/2006 10:59:05 PM" "0 hours" "" "" March_15_Wednesday:"D592CD5ED5DD4387B81A44CD249B0D58" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "3/15/2006 11:01:24 PM" "0.5 hour" "communicated with team members, planning how we will be taking responsibility for our botball teams via email. (the .5 hours was spread out over several hours)" "decided on "contact persons" for the different aspects of the technical part of botball (the robots and programming them)" March_16_Thursday:"6E770AE7BF254BCCACDE4F8FB964AAAF" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "3/16/2006 5:06:25 PM" "4 hours" "classtime activity folowed by helping inspect the botball equipment with Dr. Mutchler" "while doing our team building exercise, we discovered that building a paper tower is not as easy as it seems. other than that our team figured out how to operate the cameras during the leftover classtime. as for the inspecting of the botball gear, not much to it. we did discover that the "brains" were already configured when we were lead to believe they were not, i kind of pleasant surprise." March_17_through_March_19_Friday:"64DFDB87B94A4D7B80E3E5C08207ED2A" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "3/20/2006 2:39:24 PM" "3.5 hours" "general assistance during the workshop on friday (answering programming questions and the like). Met with the teams we were assigned and exchanged contact info." "Problems encountered were usually with the programming aspect of the workshop and were easily addressed. we all got a feel for how experienced our schools were and how much assistance each will be needing or wanting." March_20_Monday:"D1E44204BFC54B0597541B1B3545BA67" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/2/2006 6:32:04 PM" "1.5 hours" "class discussion of how things went last friday and saturday, which teams did want help and what kind of help they wanted." "we divied up who got to be the contact for which school in our group." March_21_Tuesday:"A0B06176F1D1431BB62A0F6A00ED49F8" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/2/2006 6:32:31 PM" "0 hours" "" "" March_22_Wednesday:"8BCA79BB391A4D6D848FD10BC1C84C4D" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/2/2006 6:33:40 PM" "0.5 hour" "collaborated with other group members on which schools have been contacted and which haven't responded yet." "" March_23_Thursday:"0236C1C9F6A54F35AD6FEA63F6F56750" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/2/2006 6:36:16 PM" "1 hour" "classtime, spent checking who else has made contact with thier schools. planning how to deliver our team building excercise" "we found a few ways to get around the distance problem with us and the schols we were assigned, some schools opted to administer team building excercise on thier own time." March_24_through_March_26_Friday:"8D013EC8D826471790E0C96C8C6E8D62" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/2/2006 6:37:31 PM" "1 hour" "cumulative collaboration time between group members as we continued to contact our schools and coordinate both the team building excercise and flesh out what technical help they wanted." "" March_27_Monday:"3B3369DC19C34A5AB61460039F4C4962" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/2/2006 6:42:04 PM" "1 hour" "classtime, went over twiki. collaborated with another team who had a school in the same area as ours." "we collaborated with another team to help do a technical session with one of our schools. we think it could be a good idea for all the teams with schools that are close to each other to collaborate on helper sessions, whether its a technical help session or a team building session." March_28_Tuesday:"559461625F164365A61974ED813EE37C" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/2/2006 6:42:16 PM" "0 hours" "" "" March_29_Wednesday:"2E5F19568AE64A3EAEBA3C68AB72C356" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/2/2006 6:42:50 PM" "0.5 hour" "email contact with our schools" "" March_30_Thursday:"FFDB5ED8C2B0453E8C76B40CDEF87ED1" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/2/2006 6:46:04 PM" "1.5 hours" "made a phone call to hamilton southeast since we had not been contacted by them via email yet. group meeting during usual class hour where we found out we had been emailed by hamiltion southeast finally. we decided how we we're going to deliver an technical help sheet about the botball construction based on our jigsaw excersize we did in class" "we divied up the work based on what we had in class and the rest was basically a first to volunteer basis. " March_31_through_April_2_Friday:"3FACD449158F43139ABBB6F553A6A0DB" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/17/2006 2:47:00 PM" "1 hour" "began forming our Interactive C "cheat sheet"" "we divided the work based on our in class jigsaw groups as we had before, this worked out pretty well." March_6_Monday:"9E8BF15A34F24A1C8D20C4DBAE434188" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "3/6/2006 8:27:39 PM" "2 hours" "1 hour class 35 min homework 15 this survey" "class was an intorduction to the course, a team building exercise, and a brainstorming session on team building exercises we could use. we seemed to have a little difficulty coming up with serious suggestions, however we had enough serious ones to choose from so it didn't become an issue. The homework was very straightforward and we had no difficulties with that, and learned a little more about each other as we made suggestions on how to expand upon the two ideas we selected in class." March_7_Tuesday:"27A532A9F0544D4696E803040FBF5248" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "3/11/2006 4:13:12 PM" "1 hour" "today was only the time spent in class." "after the introductory "visualization" we separated and started learning about the different components to the robots we will be building, my part was on the motors and servos" March_8_Wednesday:"C88B4F51E3C64020AAFA938A8E83A81D" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "3/11/2006 4:15:22 PM" "0.5 hour" "this time was spent viewing the beyond botball rules as they were specified on the botball website." "not much interesting occured other than becoming familiar with the tournament we will be competing in." March_9_Thursday:"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." May_10_Wednesday:"657408A0D08148C0AAA553D851C80569" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/15/2006 1:47:51 PM" "0.5 hour" "tried to brainstorm better ways to carry the wall claw on the bot." "not much progress, got one idea to just add more struts to the mechanism to see if the increased friction will hold the claw." May_11_Thursday:"651EA314E7A64B38A9B6E607A179F3F8" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/15/2006 1:49:35 PM" "1.5 hours" "more beyond botball work." "Abandoned the wall, in favor of just driving up and obstructing thier goal with our bot. built up the bot to be a bit more bulky for better obstruction." May_12_through_May_14_Friday:"FFF9FA55C6794D2C85D59D2770EFECBF" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/17/2006 12:29:36 PM" "7 hours" "worked as a judge at the botball tournament. also made some last minute attempts at our bot on friday." "it was alot of fun to be one of the judges at the final matches of the tournament." May_15_Monday:"502D2AC380504668AE81BC59308FA490" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/17/2006 12:32:03 PM" "5 hours" "worked with curt on our robotics paper (monday, tuesday, and wednesday)" "we basically showed each other the article we had found and discussed what we both found interesting in them. after that we discussed some of the possible moral implications and issues that could rise from robotic prosthetics before we wrote the paper itself." May_1_Monday:"5535E0A5EC684A31BCAC4A8D2F801156" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/4/2006 4:04:50 PM" "1.5 hours" "reworked the bot to make sure it was capable of going over the pipe." "still working out turning the bot." May_2_Tuesday:"B29983C0B8AC4703BBB29362A2BA0B26" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/4/2006 4:05:14 PM" "0 hours" "had a PLC test to study for." "" May_3_Wednesday:"D20BE3DF5C744DEFB26656911F037570" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/4/2006 4:07:05 PM" "1.5 hours" "thinking of ways to build the wall poles using the lego pieces we had. also other design ideas for the claw and what to make the actual wall out of." "no new solid designs, a few ideas on light yet string material such as a nylon net, but where would we get it?" May_4_Thursday:"4E6D2B9E74B047028A204F3051AFFB2E" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/4/2006 4:10:01 PM" "2 hours" "new idea that could possibly replace the "wall". make use of an expandable clotheshamper. brainstormed ways to make this work." "the hamper idea would obstruct a large portion of the dead man land and possibly block the goals altogether. concern about going over the verticle projection, and a few ideas for opening the hamper before locking it in position and opening it after its placed. will need some experimentation." May_5_through_May_7_Friday:"EC3FAF9DFFDA4DCCA078CF31F97AD39C" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/15/2006 1:41:46 PM" "2.5 hours" "more beyond botball robot work" "struggling with the delivery system for the wall." May_8_Monday:"B28D87842C3A465985D9677949E03FA9" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/15/2006 1:44:06 PM" "2 hours" "decided topics for research paper, followed by more robot work." "teamed up with curt barnard about neural interfaced robotic prosthetics. still devising more ideas for an effective wall." May_9_Tuesday:"9350B6D6B79748639F86B1ABFC0CCFC0" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "5/15/2006 1:46:06 PM" "1 hour" "more botball robot work." "attempted to mount a delivery system for the claw'd side of the wall. used a "wormgear" or however its spelled to try to lower the claw after moving into position over the bar. had difficulty keeping it on the delivery system AND being able to release it once in place."