Hope ..

I thought of trying out some crazy experiment that might help us find a good compliant surface for the hardware. We decided to meet in college before our first meeting at ITWorx to integrate our tasks and try them out, also a chance for me to see the results of my experiment. The shock was to find that the hardware doesn't work! All circuit connections were totally messed up. The camera didn't work. It was horrible!

The camera issue was fixed a7l (!!!) The hardware will need a proper reconstruction. Fouad and Mahmoud paid El-Nekheily a visit and bought a few electronic-circuit-slim-boards to hold the LEDs. We tried one of them so far. Using them seems promising.

The good news is: My experiment worked a7l!!! (I'll discuss that in a later post isA)

After the continuous failure to fix things, we had to hurry to ITWorx. Mihan and Essam were so nice, they are so helpful as well. They both mentioned two hardware stores where we might find some parts for our hardware construction. They sent me details to check RS and Maamoun stores; we should be doing that in the coming few days, or after we're back isA.

Meeting Summary:

• Assign roles between us - to be discussed.
• Create a task-list - suggestions: Google Notebook or GoogleDocs (Excel Spreadsheet).
• Start writing the requirements document till we get the templates from ITWorx.
  
• Start writing the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) of the project.
• Source Control.
• Meeting timing will be changed - hopefully to Tuesday isA.
  

For source control, I will be hosting the source code at home on my desktop PC where I have Visual SVN installed and a dynamic dns account to access it. We will be using TortoiseSVN on each client - tested and working now a7l, just finished that!

Regarding the tasks due last Sunday:

• Fouad: Done - awaiting a live test.
• Roaa: Had a killer bug in the detection code, solved a7l - tested .. Still we have some memory leaks though (undeleted pointers).
• Alaa: Tracker is done a7l! There were some surprising special cases that are handled now - awaiting two live tests: with Mahmoud's application and the hardware.
• Mahmoud: Done - awaiting a live test.

We're kinda behind schedule, and we've got lots to do for the acmASCIS Student Chapter when the next semester starts isA. We will be traveling next week isA. Working on the project will be resumed after that isA.