Team Members Blogs

ZINGER YANG'S BLOG
-http://zingeryang.blogspot.com/

DAVID WEN-ZEA KUO'S BLOG
-http://wkuo.blogspot.com/

LYNDA BAYAS'S BLOG
-http://lyndabayas.blogspot.com/

Crickets with Tablet 

Cricket communication 

Tablet 

Tablet with the mouse and pen 

March 3rd meeting

Today we met to figure out how to use the pressure sensor to work with the cricket, seemed difficult, but myseld and david were able to fiugre it out , I was holding the sensor connection to the crciket and david ran the logo code . It worked!!!. We soldered the wires and here we go . Now we have to put all the assembly into a box for demo. Next meeting is on Saturday March 5th Noon.

Feb 19 Meeting

We met today and myself and David worked on figuring out how to make the 2 crickets communicate and then made it work with Java interface.

<>Tasks Completed:
1) Make 2 crickets communicate with each other.
2) Make 2 crickets communicate with each other via Java GUI

Cricket 1 (Receive commands from Java GUI and sends commands to Cricket 2)
to sender
send 76
send sensora >> This sends data back to cricket from Sensor A
send 83
send switchb >> This sends data back to cricket from Switch B
<>waituntil [newir?] >> Cricket waits for new input from the java code
if ir = 1 [send 3] >> when cricket 1 receives the ir=1, it sends out ir=3 to cricket 2
if ir = 2 [send 4] >> when cricket 1 receives the ir=2,it sends out ir=4 to cricket 2
when [switchb] [send 5]
sender
end

Cricket2 (Receive commands from Cricket1) - a is motor , b is LED
to doit
waituntil [newir?]
beep
if ir = 3 [a, onfor 10]
if ir = 4 [b, onfor 10]
if ir = 5 [ab, onfor 10]
doit
end

Printing the Poster - 02/28/2004

Printing the poster seemed to be an easy task initially but turned out to be really tough one to achieve, Ajahne sent me the poster and I tried printing it out but the plotter ran out out memory , it took be more than one hour to figure it out how to print the poster and it came out pretty well. I was excited and called Ajahne to tell him and he was happy too.

Meeting on Feb 22

We discussed about the poster outline

The poster presentation is divided into the following,
-Overview - Gives simply overview of the products used and what we will achieve at the end of the project.
-Technology - pictures, sensors informations,motor informations
-Implementation - How cricket works, How tablet works, How cricket and tablet works.

Saturday's Meeting

Saturday's meeting 02/19/2005
We got the Java code working with both the crickets , one accepting the command from the other and other one doing the work. Zinger figured out the java code for Tablet and we need to work on to combine all of these. We would meet on Tuesday 02/22/2005 again after the class to work on the presentation and combing the input from Tablet.
Signing off now.

Shoaib Zahoori

Hands on Cricket

Yesterday I had hands on experience with cricket, After the Comp 171 HCI Class I went to TUI lab and started working on cricket, trying trying ti figure out how it works. Soon the whole project team joined and we divided into two groups , one groups started working on Tablet as we have to use the tablet with cricket, Myself, David and Lynda started working on cricket and it was fun, we spent time making cricket do somethings like running a motor, making the LED go on and reversing the direction of running motor. It was really a very good experience and we all had a great time . Next time when we meet we will work on the design of what we need to do for the project.
Signing off now.
Shoaib