Project completed successfully.
- Mike :: Thursday, May 13, 2003

 
A second trivial GUI has been uploaded to the previews page. The program retrieves tracks from the database and displays them, giving a number of plotting options.
- Mike :: Sunday, December 07, 2003

 
A trivial GUI has been uploaded to the previews page. With it, one can graphically view one's tracks in the engineering quad from a tracks file. More to come soon.
- Mike :: Monday, November 17, 2003

 
Satellite Navigation: Cool GPS Devices for You has just appeared as an interesting article on GPS's history and progress. A short read with plenty of pictures.
- Mike :: Monday, November 10, 2003

 
So far (and for Monday, November 10, 2003):
(0) Redesign system w/o two-port, and with PLD, pin count inclusive.
(1) Check reading/writing from PIC to VT220 (in the lab).
(2) Check reading/writing from PIC to an LCD.
(3) Test PIC with LCD | write code to put data in the PIC.

Software:
(1) Normalize and rebuild the entire database system.
(2) Add support for updates to database through JDBC. [MF]
(3) Integrate serial code with JDBC access functions. [MF/AL]
(9) Await response from keyhole. [Done - Awaiting negotiation of resources]
- Mike :: Monday, November 03, 2003

 
So far (and for Monday, November 3, 2003):
Hardware:
(0) Redesign system w/o two-port, and with PLD, pin count inclusive.
(1) Plug in GPS to computer, test reception. [RC/AA - Complete, Sample Data Stored]

Software:
(1) Instantialize a dummy database and retrieve data from it via JDBC. [MF-Done]
(2) Write an application/DLL to retrieve information from PIC. [AL-Done]
(3) Receive confirmation from Keyhole? [Pending]
- Mike :: Monday, October 27, 2003

 
Now that the presentations are out of the way (and the exams too), we can finally get some work done. For this upcoming Monday, October 27th, 2003: the software team needs to remake the E-R diagram ; the hardware team needs to get that PIC working! And I need to remake the PowerPoint presentation.
- Mike :: Thursday, October 23, 2003

 
End of the year research:

A nice chassis/enclosure for the device!

Sensor systems.

- Mike :: Monday, October 20, 2003

 
Meeting for presentation to Wolf, this Friday, October 17th at 2:30PM. According to the SDP page, we're first on the list to present Monday, October 20th - so we need to figure out which slide we will be presenting.
- Mike :: Wednesday, October 15, 2003

 
Meeting on Monday, October 10, 2003 in Wolf's office. Bring your block diagrams - we will be discussing the PDR.
- Mike :: Friday, October 10, 2003

 
You will read the provided document on spacial databases (local PDF) by Ralf Hartmut Güting of U-Hagen. Genießen Sie es!
- Mike :: Wednesday, October 01, 2003

 
New! Sixth (and almost final) revision of the specification on the preview page preview page.
- Mike :: Friday, September 26, 2003

 
Fifth (and possibly final) revision of the specification is now avalible on the preview page. If you have any ideas before tomorrow, e-mail them to us.
- Mike :: Thursday, September 25, 2003

 
Thoughts on development:

Hardware has been chosen by Lam & Aarij as the Garmin GPS 15L / GPS 15L OEM unit; and the MaxStream 900MHz OEM module. The devices will be be interfaced via a peripheral interface controller such as the PIC 16F84. They have been aprooved across the group (by Andrew, Advisor Wolf, and myself).

Because of Andrew's forte in writing Java, and the group's experience with java - a Java web application server such as Resin 2.11 on Apache2 may be employed. Resin connects static HTML content with active data retrieved via JDBC/ODBC from an SQL or an Access database (just like the shows).

Research on Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) and (Coordinated Universal Time) UTC continues.

Fourth draft/revision of specification is now avalible under the preview page. This draft is due on Friday, September 26, 2003.
- Mike :: Wednesday, September 24, 2003

 
LAIS meeting today, 2:30~4:30, Gunness. Lam has a conflict until 3:45, and I have one at 4:00. Topics:

Hardware for Monday's purchase: Wireless device, WAAS 35 (east coast) + 47 enabled GPS unit.

Visio diagrams of hardware system (presented by Lam & Aarij).

Visio diagrams of the database system, devise a query format.

Research on UTM/UTC grid representations.

Third draft revised, working on finishing a fourth draft.
- Mike :: Tuesday, September 23, 2003

 
Third project specification draft reviewed. New additions include hardware & method descriptions, timetable reconstruction, and descriptive images.
- Mike :: Thursday, September 18, 2003