After the big rush of mid-terms and insane lab report due dates in the last two weeks, I have been busy over the past few days doing a small sprint on writing more stuff into our project specifications. Due to an unwarranted force in the department, we are working hard to make sure that our project will succeed in meeting all of our requirements and expectations of the projects.
Meanwhile, I’ll continue to go through documents like the IEEE 830-1998, IEEE 1016-1998, IEEE 1233-1998, Canadian Aviation Regulations, and a mountain of technical datasheets with my team to complete our fourth year project.
In other news…
Having not checked the usage statistics of UWLive Courselect since I got on the Daily Bulletin, I got a little bit curious and logged into my Google Analytics account. It turns out that in the past two week, my user base had increased significantly! It’s been little over two months since I rolled out the SEO improvements on the pet project. Over 450 people tried the “short list” feature on the website within the last month over the course of the class enrollment period. Although I wish I could have done a better job on the short list feature, it was better for me to roll out something than not at all in this initial phase of the project.
At this point, I am not actually too certain on the future developments of the UWLive family of projects. There are a lot of neat ideas that needs to be translated into code but I will most likely be locking my time into FYDP for the most part. A few extra helping hands would be useful, but I would even have difficulties in splitting out time to do the necessary training and infrastructure set up.
There also has been welcoming adjustments in the Federation of Students governing body as a result of the election last month. When it comes time, I think the conversations would be starting up again for me to let go of UWLive to a better long-term home whether it’ll be with the Registrar’s Office, the Federation of Students, or a responsible and technically competent group of independent students.
dang, what did they dock you for on your midterm? incompetent TAs indeed
Apparently they did not know that the differences between a forward and a future is… in a course about financial derivative products. GRRR. What an embarrassment I say.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1162659/Students-tie-56-camera-balloon-send-edge-space-capture-stunning-images-Earth.html
Ah yes, I saw that earlier today. I’d say it is a commendable project. We are actually using some of the exact same components (you can read our specs to find out) but the camera has always been a tricky concern for us. Their implementation for the camera (by soldering wires to the camera) was one of our considered option, but that would involve using the camera, so we’re currently opting for some bus-hacking (undocumented). =D
However, that project clearly violates several FAA and Transport Canada regulations in airworthiness and launch procedures should it be launched in the US or Canada. Those batteries look very dangerous too; I would not send those up there.