Coffee Space 
Well, that went faster than expected. Some things are beginning to progress, others are depressingly have not changed at all.
[X] PhD: A strong representation of my PhD project
in a formal paper format with annotations (for the purpose of explaining
it). This shouldn’t take more than two days and goes towards the
upcoming paper regardless.This is now in a much better place and we’re making progress.
[~] RoboCup: Funding secured. In order for our
team to compete, we need to begin paying bills in order to get early
rates.This is very almost there, we should be able to submit our final revision soon.
[~] PhD: Submission of half-yearly project
update. This is something that should happen before the end of the
month, but we do have the option to push back on if we think we need
to.This is almost done, it just needs to go through the bureaucrats.
[~] RoboCup: Torso redesign locked in to a final
revision. Currently the innards don’t fit within the outtards. This
requires a reasonably complex redesign in order to get everything in,
including the components we have mostly avoided so far.
[X] RoboCup: Legs locked into a final
revision. We need to do some major
In the next coming update I plan to have done:
[ ] RoboCup: Debug system implemented for changing
motion states. Other people are now waiting on this to be completed
as it allows them to work on the robot without needing to SSH into it or
attach a screen/keyboard.[ ] PhD: Final changes made to the experiment and
have the results run. This could take a week due to some bugs and
the complexity of the system.[ ] PhD: The second paper (a clean-up and
advancement on the second paper) ready as a complete first draft.
Again, this could take a week because of some large changes that need to
be made specifically in relation to the background section and writing
up the results.[ ] PhD: Consider additional avenues of funding
encase the project overruns. There is a possibility that there is
too much to do in too little time and I need to fund an additional
year.[ ] PhD: Submission of half-yearly project
update. This is something that should happen before the end of the
month, but we do have the option to push back on if we think we need
to.[ ] RoboCup: Torso redesign locked in to a final
revision. Currently the innards don’t fit within the outtards. This
requires a reasonably complex redesign in order to get everything in,
including the components we have mostly avoided so far.[ ] RoboCup: Legs locked into a final
revision. We need to do some major re-work to the screw mounts,
ankle positions and hip positions.[ ] RoboCup: Electronics ordered, tested and sent
off to a PCB manufacturer. This is the project of another team
member but will require some help as its a hand off between a previous
member they never really interacted with.[ ] Personal: Lose 1 stone in weight. This
should be achievable as I’ll both lose much through water retention and
also there is a lot to lose.[ ] RoboCup: Funding secured. In order for our
team to compete, we need to begin paying bills in order to get early
rates. A quick clean-up of the proposal is required to get the
go-ahead.Stretch and reach goals:
[ ] RoboCup: Game controller networking
completed. This is an open source library to be incorporated and
tested.[ ] RoboCup: Team networking completed. Again,
another open source library that it should be possible to
implement.[ ] Website: Get comments system running over
HTTPS. Currently the comments are broken for most web browsers due
to “security” issues.[ ] Website: Clean-up old controversial
articles. Some of the articles no longer represent my ideas and
could possibly end up causing me problems in the future.[ ] Website: Clean-up gaming website.
Currently it doesn’t work well and is seriously out of date.[ ] Website: Move coffee-archive to this site and
re-plan the work to be done. This project has been long
neglected.[ ] Website: Perform server maintenance.Next Update: The 23rd of April looks like a good point for this.