Week 5 of 2017

This weeks blog will feature a dual post from Stefan and Brad:

It has been a busy last week for all the students on the team as we have seen a wave of tests sweep campus for all majors. To catch everybody back up with what has happened with the team I’ve included a short synopsis below:

There was some weird things happening to the team after they were terrorized by a monster named Grendel the day or so after Brice had posted his blog update. Owen managed to rip off Grendel’s arm and then defeats Grendel’s mother with some cool armor he had 3D Printed.

Owen became king of the CI Members, and found his project terrorized by an Exploding Capacitor, some of his progress had been stolen from his box containing the CATS project. He attacks the Exploding Capacitor with the help of his hardware team, but they do not succeed. Owen decides to follow the Exploding Capacitor to its lair at The Watt Family Innovation Center, but only his young Swedish relative Wiglaf, whose name means “remnant of valor”, dares to join him. Owen finally slays the Exploding Capacitor with the help of the hardware team, and Wiglaf, but is mortally wounded in the struggle. He is cremated and a burial mound by the sea is erected in his honor.

The hardware team finished their work with the PiHat and with the Enclosure for the system. These are currently on order and will be received and printed by next week’s blog post. Brad made a pretty sweet website.

-Stefan

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“The Exploding Capacitor: An Old English Epic Poem”

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Owen, seen smiling next to the defeated Exploding Capacitor

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Software team, debating ‘if’ statements

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Young Morris learns to solder

Oh.. and the website stuff

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Home Page

Login

Login

LoginConfirm

Login

machinecontrolpanel

Machine Control Panel

AddMachine

Add Machine Form

UsersControlPanel

User Control Panel

AddUser

Add User Form

logoutconfirm

Logout Confirmation

Unfinished Features:

  • Events Table
  • Export Events, User, and Machine tables to Excel
  • Visual Graphs on Events, User, and Machine metrics
  • Machine State Toggle Functionality
  • Authorization Controls

Sources:

Lore – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf#Third_battle:_The_Dragon

Bootstrap/HTML/CSS Coding – https://www.w3schools.com/

Data Tables – https://datatables.net/examples/server_side/select_rows.html

Data Tables With in Table Controls- https://editor.datatables.net/examples/simple/inTableControls.html

Debugging/Error Handling – http://www.tutorialrepublic.com/php-tutorial/php-error-handling.php

Forms – http://bootsnipp.com/forms

 

Icons – http://fontawesome.io/

Password Hashing – http://php.net/manual/en/function.password-hash.php

Toggle Switch – http://www.bootstraptoggle.com/

-Brad

 

 

Week 6

It’s been another great week for the CATS team! This week we are changing things up with a photo blog.

Electrical DiagramThe hardware team developed the Alpha Electronic Schematic using fritzing.

Visual Wiring Diagram

A visual perspective of the schematic.

MATRIX CODE

The software team found open-source python coding to determine keypad presses. Source: Chris Crumpacker’s blog

20161004_165026The hardware team’s parts arrived.

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And were quickly assembled.

That’s it for this week!