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Matt Farich Personal Log
##4/26/15## Working on demo presentation.
##4/19/15## Working on bug fixing with nodes. Tested node version 2 in the water.
##4/12/15## Worked on node instructions. Talked to John about the website.
##4/5/15## Sunday Fighting with ROS on the Pi.
Monday Fighting with ROS on the Pi.
Tuesday Testing faulty GPS on node 2. Fighting with ROS on Pi.
Wednesday Got driftNode V2 working.
Thursday Determined node 2's GPS antenna is bad.
##3/29/15## Tuesday Got Raspberry Pi 2s from Yiannis. Worked on getting them booting.
Wednesday RPi 2s are working in place of the RPi 1s.
Thursday Met with Yiannis. Working on setting up pi from scratch to make instructions.
##3/22/15## Working on documentation.
##3/15/15## Planned with Yiannis. Going to work on documentation and debugging.
##3/8/15## Spring Break
##3/1/15## Tuesday Met with Dr Vidal.
Thursday & Friday Tried to process IMU data and helped Yiannis proofread CRV paper.
##2/22/15## Worked on image stitching with Silas.
Thursday Met with Yiannis.
##2/15/15## Tuesday Group met with Dr Vidal and showed him progress.
Wednesday Helped Silas with image stitching. Helped John and Danny with GPS path.
##2/8/15## Sunday Fighting with RViz
Monday Tamed RViz.
Thursday Group met with Yiannis.
Friday Group met with Yiannis.
##2/1/15## Monday Played with rqt plotting.
Tuesday Played with rqt plotting.
Thursday Met Yiannis.
Friday Fighting with RViz
Saturday Fighting with RViz
##1/25/15## Thursday Met with Yiannis.
##1/18/15## Tuesday Set up meeting times with Yiannis.
Thursday Met with Yiannis and discussed plans for the semester.
##1/11/15## Emailed Yiannis a couple times about what was going on with the nodes in Barbados.
##1/4/15## Sunday Working on driftNode manual.
Monday Worked on ad-hoc wifi network with Yiannis in lab.
Tuesday Worked on startup script in lab.
Wednesday Worked on GPS time updating in lab. Tested nodes to make sure they are working.
Thursday Me and Yiannis made sure everything is working and taken care of with the nodes for him to take to Barbados.
Friday Helped Yiannis package up the nodes and other equipment.
##12/29/14## In PA this week, so nothing to speak of.
##12/22/14## In PA this week, so nothing to speak of.
##12/15/14## Monday Working on casings in the lab with Silas and Yiannis.
Tuesday Too dead to go to lab.
Wednesday Working on casings in the lab with Silas and Yiannis.
Thursday Working on casings in the lab with Silas and Yiannis.
##12/8/14## Monday Group went to Moes for lunch.
Tuesday Group met Yiannis and talked about casings. We went to the mechanical engineering machine shop to make parts for the nodes.
Friday Worked on node casings with Silas and Yiannis the the lab.
Saturday Still here from Friday.
##12/1/14## Monday Apparently Moes is still alive, so we went there for lunch. Met with Dr Rekleitis and talked about networking and the demo. Fought with the camera node some more.
Tuesday Finally got the camera node to work. Thank God.
Wednesday Tested rosbag sizes.
Thrusday Wrote scripts to have the pi automatically start the ros master and all the nodes at startup.
Friday Group met with Dr. Rekleitis and talked about tube casings for the nodes. We went to lake Murray and filmed a demo of the nodes in the water. Also may have had a kayak dropped on the mirror of my car.
Saturday Got up at the buttcrack of dawn for the demo presentations.
##11/24/14## Monday Holy insert obscenities the pi takes forever to compile. The poco library seems to have installed and now catkin is complaining about the opencv library. That's compiling now and is probably going to take 4 hours.
Daniel and John assasinated Moes and we went to Maddios.
Tuesday Opencv finally finished compiling. Still trying to resolve a million catkin/ros dependencies for the raspicam node.
Wednesday Worked on the camera node.
Thursday Worked on the camera node.
Friday Worked on the camera node.
Saturday Worked on the camera node.
Sunday Worked on the camera node.
##11/17/14## Monday Group went to lunch at Moe's. Got batteries and cameras from Dr. Rekleitis. Got gps node reading from gpsd and sending/receiving nav_msgs over a ros topic.
Tuesday Got imu node reading from imu and sending/receiving imu_msgs over a ros topic. Still need to figure out what parts of the imu data go where in the imu message. Pi ran from 3pm to 1am on battery and only dropped from 4/4 bars to 3/4 bars on the battery's display.
Thursday Took the node for a walk to see if it would record reasonable data. Had a fight with ROS because it doesn't have provisions for time in the NavSatFix message and making my own message wasn't going well.
Saturday Got GPS time to update the Pi's system time, then realized it was 4am.
Sunday Worked on getting the poco library installed for the camera node. Still compiling, so I'll check it in the morning.
##11/10/14## Monday Group discussed batteries. Planning to work on ROS stuff tomorrow or Wednesday.
Tuesday Trying to figure out how to get ROS to read from the IMU... things aren't going well.
Friday Group met Dr. Rekleitis. He helped us with ROS.
Saturday Me, John, and Danny went to Silas' house and worked on ROS on the pi.
##11/3/14## Monday John and Danny Ray abandoned us, so me, Zack, and Silas went to lunch and discussed 3d printing of node parts.
Friday Group met with Dr. Rekleitis. Discussed getting ROS setup as well as batteries.
##10/27/14## Monday Group met for lunch at Moes. Talked about stuff.
Tuesday Got SD card with ROS installed on it from Zack. Installed IMU and GPS libraries on top of that, then copied whole SD card for other Pis.
Friday Group met with Dr. Rekleitis. We also gave our presentation to Dr. Matthews.
##10/20/14## Monday Group met for lunch at Moes. Working on architecture thing.
Wednesday Group met Dr. Vidal.
Thursday Worked on getting IMUs working with the Pis.
##10/13/14## Monday I Worked on the proposal presentation.
Friday Group met with Dr. Rekleitis. We got the wires and the sd cards.
##10/6/14## Monday Group met at Moes for lunch and talked about when we can meet to start working on the hardware. I picked up the wifi dongles from Dr. Rekleitis.
Wednesday Group met with Dr. Vidal and talked about our progress. We also talked to Dr. Rekleitis about soldering irons.
Friday Group met with Dr. Rekleitis and talked about functional requirements.
##9/29/14## Monday We met a Moes for lunch and talked more about hardware components.
Tuesday I looked at some of the IMUs and decided we should try the Pololu IMU from the list that Dr. Rekleitis sent us.
Friday Met with Dr. Rekleitis and picked up some of the hardware components from him.
##9/22/14## Monday We discussed different batteries, solar panels, capacitors, and other options that could possibly be used as power sources for the nodes.
Wednesday We met with Dr Vidal and talked about specifics of our project.
Friday We met with Dr. Rekleitis and talked about components for our nodes. He gave us a list of what he thought would be good components to choose from, and also gave us a computer board that we can use for testing. We'll be meeting with him again next Friday to tell him what components we've chose for our initial testing.
Monday Group met at Moe's. Looked at what hardware components we could possibly use.
Thursday We made some sketches of possible designs for the nodes.
Monday We went to Moe's and decided who should fill what roles. I am the editor as well as the optimist, pessimist, analyst.
Tuesday Group met with Dr. Ioannis Rekleitis, our client, to discuss the project.
Friday Group met to come up with the personas.