Coffee Space

Progress

• [x] RoboCup: Game controller networking completed. This is an open source library to be incorporated and tested.

• [x] RoboCup: Team networking completed. Again, another open source library that it should be possible to implement.
• [x] 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.

Goals

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.

Stretch and reach goals:

• [ ] 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 8th of May looks like a good point for this.