Week 5

Week 5

Day 1

I began the week installing Tekkotsu on the asus. This did not take particularly long, just a few hours to download. After the installation I began exploring the file system trying to understand how tekkotsu works. During this process I began to see how he already incorporated the libraries for the calliope.

Day 2

On this day I began trying to see how Tekkotsu works with the camera as it would as player/stage. It turns out that it did not work out with Tekkotsu on the desktop but it worked very well on the asus. After I dealt with that problem I began to look at the controller for calliope to see what needed to happen for it to work.

Day 3

I continued working on the problem of moving the servos with Tekkotsu. This was a pretty difficult because with Tekkotsu it uses a totally different system than player/stage. They use Targets to control different robotic hardware. Later this day we went to our weekly seminar which consisted of all the CS REU students looking at each others resumes and statement of purpose. After the meeting I began to continue working on the Tekkotsu problem and coming up with a topic for our individual research topics.

Day 4

We began this day with a meeting with Dr. Anderson telling her about our projects and what our process was going to be for the project. My project is creating an easier to use interface to control a robotic arm in player/stage. My process for this was to begin researching on how to create a driver for the calliope which I would be using for my project, then I would move on to creating a interface for the arm, and finally do testing and see which users though programming found it easier.

Day 5

On this day I began actually researching the kinematics, and how to create a driver for an robotic arm. I used this whole day trying to understand how to create this driver.

Goals working on:

Interface for robotic arm.

Begin: May 30, 2010
End: July 31, 2010