Weekend 2: Python and Darts

Today was a full day of work for you...over 14 hours of project work! You woke up and headed to Nick's house at 9:10 to work on the tether. Unfortunately the density of the wire used in our tether was too much. Even with the meshed casing and foam tubing, the buoyancy of the tether was still not great enough to allow it to float. There was still about 5 extra pounds of weight that couldn't be accounted for. The only fortunate part about this morning was that the tether casing worked extremely well!

After finishing with the tether your headed to your house at around 11:00 and began working on finishing the battery monitor while Nick created some CAD models. You wrote a post about the battery monitors, started one about MJPG-Streamer on the BeagleBone, and organized all of the python code into a few modules. When Josef and Liam arrived at around 12:30 you continued working on the Python code. You organized the GPS, battery monitoring system, and stepper modules into a easily executable file.

At 14:20 you stopped for a quick snack and then continued working. At 16:30 you went outside and tossed a frisbee and then went back inside for a game of darts. While playing darts Liam telescoped two darts which I though was awesome....

After working on the servers some more, you and Josef finally got a byte connection working (from Python on the BeagleBone to Java on Josef's laptop). After getting this working, you headed over to Liam's house for dinner. At Liam's you had chicken noodle soup, bread, salad, and bagels with nutella (that wasn't actually real nutella). After eating dinner you headed back to your house.

For the next couple of hours you tried to get threads running the Python server, but to no avail. You settled on using a logic loop to receive and then send data. At around 23:00 you, Nick, Liam, and Josef ate pie adjourned. It was a long day and not as productive as you had hoped, although you did get some blog posts written, the streaming method solidified, and different python modules completed.