These past few weeks I’ve been quite busy with all sorts of SCABMS business… from development to logistics.
I finished up the search feature on the Drink Menu. This allows for the user, via the onScreen keyboard, to limit the drink list dynamically as they type to fit their search string. This limiting is based on […]
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Searchalicious
April 1, 2008 – 1:32 am
Alternative Offerings
March 4, 2008 – 9:28 am
I’m writing this week about our seeming lack in progress in our hardware development. While we didn’t get all of the hardware configured as we’d hoped… we did make quite the impressive prototype of what the cap assembly will ultimately be as well as a rough prototype of the holding apparatus (now to find a […]
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 […]
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. […]
Prototyping: A functional exploration
February 4, 2008 – 9:17 am
The mission that was set before Dave and myself this week was to create a functional prototype of our system interfacing with the valves through the relay and to actually control the flow of liquid using our CO2 powered system.
Tube Coupling, the finer points
The first task was to find fittings and or couplings to attach […]
Lessons in Linux Serial Interfaces
January 25, 2008 – 12:26 pm
This week our goal was to get the Linux box that we have set up for our Senior Design project to be able to interface with our 2 connected 8-port relays via the Serial (DB-9) Port, and we succeeded!A little background information:
Server OS - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake)
Computer Hardware -
Processor: 1GHz Pentium III
Memory: 256MB […]