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 […]
Category Archives: Proof of Concept
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Adding Drinks
January 29, 2008 – 12:38 am
While most of the code has already been written for the Add Drink interface, the database handler which will send the information from the completed configuration form to the corresponding database tables. It will require interaction with more than one table since the liquid IDs and the drinks are stored separately, which means there […]
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 […]