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Blog 2017 02 03 Winter
I made a demo of the bump-mapping and displacement mapping in order to get a good understanding of what was happening in the code. I also have started to code with WebGL and will be slowly integrating it with what the rest of the group has up on Github. We are now all able to edit and add on to the code since Al made a small tutorial on how to allow extremely long file path names.
We will be needing to create the OneNote document this upcoming week and register for the engineering expo. Any revisions that need to be done will be discussed during our Monday meetings. During that time, I am also hoping we will be able to select a team captain. We are planning on getting an SD card as well.
There are a couple problems with trying to test the Web Server at the university over its network. Al talked to Kevin about it and unfortunately it looks like we will be needing to go through the IT department and wait for them to approve us (let us past OSU's firewalls). Since Kevin is on the committee we hope that we have pretty high chances of them granting the permissions for our team.
This week I am doing some additions to the Logging of the server. Al also found out why we could not log onto the server at OSU. It has something to do with the college's firewall. It works fine from his house so we should not have an issue when we are at the launch site.
We got work from the instructors on putting our "paperwork" in one note file. We have not voted on a team captain but I hope by Monday of next week we should have that done. With the Logging we are transferring it to a CSV file. It seem that the rest of team really liked that Idea. Also Natasha said she can work with that as well. I should have that done by Sunday at the latest unless some serious problem shows up.
I believe that their was a problem with One Note. We got an Email from Dr. Winters about holding off on sending her our link. Also Al had an issue with the Rasberry PI not having a micro SD card. He asked Mr. McGrath for one. If he does not have one we are just going to have to pick one up ourselves.
This week we made some changes to the JSON format and how the data will be logged. Originally, we intended to log using a JSON format, because we were converting the data to JSON anyway, and storing it as JSON will make it easy to load. However, storing the data as JSON creates problems with terminating characters not being present if the program shuts down mid-operations. Storing the data as comma-separated values instead will maintain the integrity of the log even in the event of an unscheduled shutdown and make it easy for people to load into programs such as Microsoft Excel.
We got the protocol from the ECE team late last week, so we plan on implementing that soon. Additionally, we finally got a bunch of class related non-code work, such as selecting a team captain, creating a One Note document, and sending team information to the expo organizers.
We had a problem testing the web server on the university Wi-Fi because internal connections are blocked. I believe the simplest way to get around this is to broadcast our own Wi-Fi network to test on. This will be a better solution, anyway, because the final product is designed to run on an isolated Wi-Fi network. This does mean, however, that I will have to haul around more equipment on Mondays, when our team meets.
OSU High-Altitude Rocket Team