"2267449E70E24E5ABE53B4A03F05BE5D"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/20/2006 9:13:45 PM"	"1 hour"	"Attended class, once again"	"In class, we talked about applying the Extreme Programming concept to our work, and trying to apply it to a particular set of tasks right away."
"2935FA4228244D3881524DCC74875C12"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/30/2006 2:10:59 PM"	"1 hour"	"Met with the team, started work on a system for extending the height of the basket we use to carry balls."	"I decided the best way to extend the height of the basket was to devise a criss-crossing bars system that could extend out by pushing two end pieces together (like those extending boxing glove toys, as in the following image: http://www.daddonastudios.com/pages/1/kids/images/boxing_glove.jpg ).  I started work on this that day."
"8D24E83D777F4E3A919056D791950C83"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/17/2006 2:37:26 AM"	"1 hour"	"Attended class, as per the usual."	"Um, this was two weeks ago, so I don't really remember what we did.  I think we started Beyond Botball, and my team started coming up with strategies for our robot."
"EFA96CEEF09C44919DE605893DA11F78"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/15/2006 9:04:22 PM"	"1 hour"	"Attended class, where we talked about what's going to happen this weekend, and filled out this form."	"There wasn't much to reflect on.  My team decided to meet the next day to work on team-building ideas."
"AF78FA10A8E64BDAA5B178C2C3B9F7E9"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/24/2006 11:17:50 PM"	"1 hour"	"As usual, attended class, and filled this out."	"Class was really useful, because the sheet we got during it was something we should have had from the start.  It really helped with organization."
"3F39C11A1882446C8BAEE5BF90186DB6"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/3/2006 7:14:44 PM"	"1 hour"	"Attended class, as I am wont to do on Mondays."	"We started working with TWiki today, which was a process that didn't work very well because no-one had permissions, and as is the wiki way, only one person could update the permisisons at once, kinda slowing things down."
"4713AAA2DC2F490E9A88907853E4D27B"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/7/2006 8:01:52 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Attended class and looked over the botball.org site (more than just the Beyond Botball stuff)"	"I learned that this class is going to be VERY different from any I've had before.  I also like how it's a "service project" too, because service projects are hard to come by at Rose."
"9942FCC2DF87460981903CAC10D79835"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/15/2006 11:19:53 PM"	"2 hours"	"Not only did I go to class, I also spent about an hour filling out these reflections for the past week, which happens when you just spent ~30 hours of your past week on Botball..."	"So, went to class today, and I met up with my teammate for the paper, and we decided it should be done on Wednesday at 6pm, which was cool with me.  Then I spent an hour filling out these reflections, and then thought about how these reflections are perhaps humorous enough to put in my real blog.  But perhaps not."
"9EAAF67AB00441A3B9B41E2C0ECA6020"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/8/2006 7:30:31 PM"	"1 hour"	"The usual in class, mostly, just working on the Beyond Botball robot."	"At this point, I think the people working on the extender for the basket that was going to hold hte balls started to see that the hydralics weren't powerful enough.  Over the next week we'd work on this, a lot."
"07AA475D2F394EE3AC2F12569286FD70"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/15/2006 9:22:26 PM"	"1 hour"	"Team IRENE was facing insurmountable odds..."	"So by this time, our team had to get down to business, because we didn't have a robot yet, we had a mess of parts that barely did anything on their own, let alone as part of a whole robot.  Fortunately, Steve had heard about our problem with our extender and devised a little replica for us in his free time, and that helped some."
"073140CB3F124EABA42E3D3DC4CE8B94"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/20/2006 9:25:46 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"We didn't have class, but was in the CS lab for half an hour, looking at Botball pieces, before the meeting they had on liaisons."	"Looking over the pieces, I did elarn that there are several types of brains, like one with just a simple motor, and since our team is considering having a robot with multiple parts, it might be more efficient if stupider pieces had smaller, more simple brains controlling them to conserve on space and weight."
"D8BCFD0A21394910AEF540C45A543D2F"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/30/2006 2:12:42 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Despite not having class this day, I came in (earlier than usual even) to work on the height extender."	"I think it was this day I learned about the best joints to use between intersecting bars, and decided I should use the longest bars for the criss-cross pattern, since the ball basket needs to be raised pretty high, I thought."
"70E3D1F7B8434D5CBDBA9B6785BB4885"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/17/2006 2:39:29 AM"	"2 hours"	"Met with the team about Beyond Botball, and also read through half of the IC manual, which I've been meaning to do for a while."	"The first half of the manual for IC talks a lot about functions that are very much like regular C's, if not identical."
"04CB2AD414C34059AFAF857A586B53A5"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/15/2006 9:08:15 PM"	"1 hour"	"My team met and discussed team-building ideas."	"We talked at length about what team-building activities we could actually do, sicne our teams were in Indy and St Louis (so pretty far away)."
"77EF9D3D32714524BEDD3EF745DB500C"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/25/2006 12:19:30 AM"	"0.5 hour"	"Our team met to discuss how to contact the other schools, despite there not being class."	"I suppose, upon reflection, I can say the team I'm on is more organized than I thought we were.  Which is good."
"203E6A6583B74292A3B50BF5855B72CE"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/3/2006 7:19:39 PM"	"1 hour"	"Instead of tuesday class, my team met this day to talk about where we were with our teams, and to type up a little something we would send them later."	"There isn't really a whole lot to reflect on here this time.  Our team met when it wasn't necessary to come to class, and most teams didn't.  Hopefully that's a win for us... ?"
"EE014DFF91DF42ED8FADFF09533353B0"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/9/2006 4:43:31 AM"	"1 hour"	"Mostly attended class, but looked into Interactive C (briefly) later that day."	"The experience during class was... interesting.  I was in the Programming group, and unfortunately we couldn't get the device to connect before the end of the class period."
"BBD43202FBD843CA9F9F8D69148623C6"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/19/2006 1:48:55 PM"	"1 hour"	"Came into class today..."	"...but actually didn't end up doing much.  I don't think our team has a lot of interest in re-doing or Botball robot for the competition on friday."
"27A8F2471CC94D7E978E7EB547F80C83"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/8/2006 7:31:40 PM"	"1 hour"	"Came in despite no class to work on that extender arm."	"The extender wasn't going very well, and part of the problem seemed to be the spacing of hte hydralics within the arm."
"C74616796A5B4BBDB87BABEDCD537C36"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/15/2006 9:23:45 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Once again coming in to work on Beyond Botball, once again not getting a ton done."	"So I wasn't quite into working on the extender mechnaism yet, despite Steve's help, so I helded Andy work on hte base of the robot, first.  Andy's a bit better at the mechanics of Legos than I am."
"C20E5C0AFE664C50A72AC78B2B870A9C"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/20/2006 9:25:55 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"2A0DCBE0B82D4B669FCDE98835000E7B"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/30/2006 2:23:28 PM"	"3 hours"	"Came in after giving blood to come up with a good example of my design that I could actually show my team."	"The first thing that I designed this day was a method for attaching the top of the height extender to the actual ball basket, since given the nature of how it extends (once again, an example can be found here: http://www.daddonastudios.com/pages/1/kids/images/boxing_glove.jpg ) it means the device can't be actually fixed to the ball basket, otherwise it won't extend and won't do anything at all.  So the first half of the day I worked on a way that the extender could slide along the basket, if the basket had rods underneath it.        I eventually got that working, and starting thinking about how to actually lift the whole thing, since it needed a compressing action between two points to work.  There were a few possibilities, but either hydralics or a motor attached to flat gears seemed the best options.  I decided to work on the hydralics, since I'd never really used them before and thought the compression and extension mechanism of them fit well into what I was doing.  So an hour or two later I figured out how they worked and had attached them to my extender successfully.  One pump could lift and drop the extender a few times on a full pump, but this was without the ball basket, so I didn't think it'd work too well with the extra weight, and that at least two pumps would be needed if hydralics would work.  But, I had to go, and at least I had something to show my team."
"4FA0553919174C53892488E8C1DD3E63"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/17/2006 2:39:39 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"A06C2ADBE3684A549E199AD4300352E9"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/17/2006 1:03:19 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"A69B7AB4F31447A6B676D9A432F1513D"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/25/2006 12:19:41 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"0D7B5BC6A04F4B6B8E14E4480D24C1B0"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/3/2006 7:19:46 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"29C2136D24814019879BEC4060F69E8D"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/9/2006 11:29:42 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"B9CD6D2343F44F59AFC361E52777B568"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/15/2006 9:24:58 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"Didn't come in to class this day, actually, but talked to the team."	"Our team had decided at this point that in order to get this robot done, we'd ahve to put in some serious work soon.  However, apparently today didn't look like a good day for this.  Tomorrow wasn't promising either."
"83AACACCC9B14595A17DE24395BF15B7"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/19/2006 1:50:38 PM"	"3 hours"	"Researched the topic for the paper, then wrote it with my teammate."	"Our paper is on the DARPA Grand Challenge, which is a DARPA-sponsored event where teams build a fully autonomous robot that can navigate in the desert or, next year, in an urban environment.  I did some research on this topic prior to meeting with my teammate Jacob, and then got the paper done in about two hours."
"4927A877EFF54AFEADDF6028D51E8A4B"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/8/2006 7:41:24 PM"	"1 hour"	"Thought about the problems I was having with the extender and tried to come up with a solution."	"At this point, I was seriously considering using a motor instead of hydralics, because I don't think the hydralics would be strong enough."
"79302A671D4444B68BBC45768F3878E1"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/20/2006 9:27:33 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"Filled out a few of these daily reflections, and also looked over the St Louis email we got."	"Unfortunately, the St Louis email we got planned for everyone that wanted to to go on the trip on the 29th of this month, when I already have something I've planned to do that day that's important, but I could still get out of it.  Now I guess I might have to make a choice..."
"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."
"60E60A699EF24CBD8D6C0BD7E36E888A"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/17/2006 2:40:29 AM"	"1 hour"	"Read through the second half of the IC manual."	"This time I learned a lot more about the robot-specific functions for our robots, and feel pretty comfortable with programming most anything for it."
"F8B3E92F5A83412FA30097BFD4A9CA26"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/17/2006 1:04:35 PM"	"1 hour"	"Attended class, and filled out this form."	"Pairs of groups showed off their ideas for team projects,  and we learned how to further perfect our groups' chosen activity."
"5417823CA78E471D819E7EA8C3987838"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/25/2006 12:19:49 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"0B7DDF4761D04178BB45DB7457A22970"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/3/2006 7:20:02 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"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."
"A58D4A036EC6458E969216E3AC708C3F"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/15/2006 11:16:27 PM"	"11 hours"	"For Thursday, I actually went to class (one hour) and then helped build botball arenas (3 hours), but 7 of the hours logged here are because of bleed-through from the Friday-Sunday reflection, which had 7 hours that didn't fit there."	"So in class, I think my team realized there wasn't a whole lot that could get done in 45 minutes on our BB robot (which is ALWAYS the case) and planned to meet on Friday evening to "do stuff".  Also later that day I helped build a couple botball arenas, which worked pretty well.  And heated PVC pipe smells awful."
"1F00087D11BE4EDC8840606F8AD7859B"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/19/2006 1:51:41 PM"	"0 hours"	"Didn't goto class, because I was busy installing a project on a server for a different class."	""
"C4F56E857DC443818AAC1D85F9BED000"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/8/2006 7:44:15 PM"	"1 hour"	"Starting talking about using a motor, though we never tried it."	"I tried to convince some other team members that a motor or two was the only way we were going to be able to make this thing work, because hydralics took too much space and weren't powerful enough.  However, we did not get around to implementing a motor."
"CF25BAFFECB944AF8C8BF79F9A343140"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/24/2006 7:04:33 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"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."
"B38426404DDA4C2397A1C14D26A2635D"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/17/2006 2:43:52 AM"	"4 hours"	"Nothing on friday, but over spring break thought a lot about how to implement the ideas that our team discussed before break."	"Our robot, as I currently see it, will be composed of different parts, probably 2-3 pieces.  We want to ensure that our botguy on our side gets picked up or protected in some way throughout the match.  We also want to block the other team's scoring area, because there doesn't seem to be anything in the rules that specifically prohibits this.  We may also have a piece that, after the 20secs of not being able to goto the other side expires, will then go over there and in general wreck havoc."
"2C876C15E49E4841AADA2D4FD82D7473"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/15/2006 8:35:20 PM"	"2 hours"	"We didn't have class friday, so instead I worked with Interactive C.  I also never included filling out this survey as part of my hours for this, so this includes my time for doing these things during the past week."	"I think I know Interactive C pretty well now, at least well enough for Friday and Saturday."
"55B861E1E3054DA496809A0BF8E28A25"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/20/2006 1:47:14 AM"	"6 hours"	"I tried to help on friday but everyone was going to lunch, I helped for about 3.5 hours on saturday, and helped setup computes on Sunday."	"The workshop on saturday was pretty cool.  I do wish that I was able to help more, but I wasn't familiar with the camera."
"D6096E52F20C48D4A06C7FC2C4068E5C"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/3/2006 7:12:42 PM"	"1 hour"	"Looked at the movies at http://www.rose-hulman.edu/class/csse/csse490/csse490-robotics-and-teamwork/Resources/Botball-2006/Botball_Team_CD_2006/Movies%20from%20Botballs%20Past/ for Botball."	"The videos were interesting, and were a lot better than the little we saw when the class first started."
"DE2EF4AFDF744E4DB96E37454CFA715E"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/15/2006 11:15:40 PM"	"More than 12 hours"	"Went to class today, and found out who would be there for working later.  Worked from about 630pm friday to 630am saturday on our team's BB robot and helping set up the competition.  Worked at the botball competition from noon until 6pm.  Collapsed.  7 hours that occurred during this period are logged in May 11th's reflection."	"On Friday I went to the SRC, and helped setup for the botball competition, which mostly involved me setting up the lighting for the tables.  Afterwards I started work on our beyond botball robot, which at that time included Andy, Meg, and me.  Early on, we decided that our robot was not going to really make it in the big time, and decided our robot should dance and sing (move around and make music) instead of do anything having to do with balls or botguys or goals or anything.  I think this was a very good choice.  So while Andy worked on putting neumatics on our robot (in the on-the-tires, going up-and-down, pimp-mobile sorta neumatics way!) Meg and I worked on doing the music.  Our method was mostly to use sheet music or MIDIs that we could open in Noteworthy Composer (to see the MIDI sheet music, in a way) and then to use a lookup table for each note to determine the frequency, then to calculate the length of the note in seconds, and then to put that all into a tone() function FOR EVERY NOTE.  Are we crazy or what?  We did that, and were able to come up with the Imperial March (Darth Vader's theme), Mr Roboto, and the Starman (Invincibility) theme from Super Mario.  And it sounded awesome.  So Andy had the neumatics done it seemed, and a claw that would grab the botguy at the beginning so we could dance around with him or whatever, and we had some "dance" code.  We found out early on that our robot was NOT adept at turning, whatsoever.  It was really horrible at it, even.  Apparently the front tires couldn't take it, and would just fall over despite the fact gears from the motors were attached to them.  So our robot couldn't dance in circles, which was like half of its repertoire, but it could still sing, thanks to forking a process being so easy, and it could still do neumatics sorta, and it could go forwards and backwards.  After that, however, my cold had advanced to threat level orange, and I had to leave.  Apparently soon after that the robot stopped downloading new programs because it didn't love us, and Andy and Meg went home too.  Then Saturday I somehow managed to wake up 4 hours later and went over to the Botball Competition, where I learned that our robot was being stupid.  And then later I learned that it wasn't charged, and was dying.  So as it turns out, our hard work was mostly for naught, and we couldn't participate in the BB competition.  So that sucked.  I did, however, help in other ways, and also served as "that guy that passed score sheets from the table 2 judges to the botball head," which not only was a VITAL role, but let me watch all the competitions close up, which was pretty awesome.  However, after all the regular competitions were done, and before the awards ceremony, I was just too tired to continue, went home, and crashed after ordering my mother flowers for Mother's Day."
"50D525680B7441958180389AFD8F483E"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"5/15/2006 9:13:09 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"Worked on Beyond Botball, I'm sure, but don't remember what in particular we worked on."	"I think around this time I start to realize just how far behind our team's robot was.  This was mostly because around this time I realized the competition was in one week, not two, as was sort of cached in my head.  So yeah, this was a problem."