Nothing big to report on right now. Still building the hardware slowly but surely.
I will be supplying my camera so that we can put up some nice video when it gets running.
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Why Not?
February 26, 2008 – 9:06 pm
Two Weeks of Building
February 25, 2008 – 11:58 pm
This was the first week of our two week build cycle. Everything is still in the works, we’ll post a longer update, and perhaps some pictures, when we have more to talk about. Next week’s post should be a bit more robust.
Happy Harry Hardware
February 25, 2008 – 11:29 pm
This week is half of a two week regiment of building the physical aspects of the machine. Putting everything together, assembly, “gutting” the fridge, etc. There isn’t a whole lot to report as of the first week due to conflicting schedules and sickenesses. More to come soon!
Progress is a warm gun…
February 18, 2008 – 8:24 pm
This week my task was to build a four valve prototype to test the pressure drop when multiple lines come into the picture. This task isn’t quite resolved for the following reasons.
I was quite ill most of last week
I was waiting on a part shipment (that came friday)
Said part shipment had a wrong part that […]
Prime Lines with Mike and Dave
February 18, 2008 – 1:29 am
This week, Mike and I discussed the implementation of the Prime Lines function. We came up with a strong design for how it will work. It will basically consist of a few lines of php that will call the serial driver using different argument strings. The Prime Lines screen will have two […]
A new prototype is “born”
February 11, 2008 – 9:44 am
This week I took two tasks upon myself… first being to use PHP to pass arguments to the C code developed by Dave and second to mockup a prototype using a two valve configuration.
PHP Passing
On passing values and arguments to the C code: This task was relatively straight forward, as I thought it would be. […]
Serial Driver
February 11, 2008 – 2:05 am
The driver is, for the most part, finished. It can now take the glass size and a set of port numbers and amounts, and convert them into system calls. It also calls the appropriate delay between each call. The order of calls is as follows: driver.exe -glass size- -first port #- -first amount- -second port […]
More Interstitials
February 11, 2008 – 12:12 am
The interstitial page is almost completed. We got the Add Drink page to concatenate the drink name and liquids into separate arrays in the $GET array. Now we are trying to get the glass sizes (default and overall possible glasses) to become concatenated into the array from the interstitial pages. We have […]
Serial Driver for PHP to Port Interface
February 5, 2008 – 5:31 pm
This week we worked on testing the pumps for the liquids. I also began work on a new driver program that will serve as an interface between the PHP code and the hardware. The program will be called with a string of arguments. These will include the glass size, the port numbers […]
Interstitials? Yes, please.
February 4, 2008 – 11:23 pm
With the cooperation of Derek, we managed to find an interstitial code segment from Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com). We had some issues getting it implemented (mostly due to my stupidity with a spelling error in the location of the referrer…)
The interstitial runs from a fairly complex Javascript file that we’re including based on a […]