Long Term Schedule

Detailed Schedule

MARCH 25
WHAT IS CURRENT STATUS
Objective: Assess past quarter deliverables
Results: Palm GUI programming started, PC Serial ADC circuit constructed and to be tested.
WEEK 02

APR 1
PALM PROGRAM PHASE 1 - POWER POINT 1 ST DRAFT & WEBPAGE CONCEPT Objective: (1) Get serial ADC circuit working (2) Order or construct Palm serial cable (3)
Learn Palm textbox programming (4) Power Point and Web Page outlines
Kevin: Palm textbox program txtBox.c Dave & Kyle: Troubleshoot PC serial ADC circuit and its C program Chong: Order Palm serial cable or parts to construct cable. Create Power Point slides- Depicting the final envisioned unit.
- Motivation i.e. market demand for a pocket-sized data acquisition unit
- Alternatives (laptops and custom units) do not provide a competitive solution
- Assign scripts (who will say what when).
- Delegate Bill to do remaining Power Point slides
Bill: Outline Web page for project. Create Power Point slides- Pictures of Dave’s ADC circuit- Screenshots of Kyle and Kevin’s Palm Program emulator program- Get Chong’s assignment of what additional Power Point slides to complete WEEK 03

APR 8
PALM PROGRAM PHASE 2 - POWER POINT 2 ND DRAFT – WEB PAGE 1 ST DRAFT Objective: (1) Learn Palm serial programming (2) Have serial ADC working circuit (3)
Rehearse Power Point presentation (4) Web page 1 st draft completed Kevin: Demo txt Box.c and program palmRxSerial.c Dave & Kyle: Demo PC serial ADC circuit. The program should acquire data from the function generator (e.g. sine wave). The data should be plotted on Excel.
Kyle: Port PC serial ADC program to Kevin’s palmRxSerial.c program.  Chong & Bill: Add any results obtained by Kevin, Kyle and David into Power Point slides.  Complete 1 st Draft of Web page (should mostly be text from Winter-term report, some photos  and links.
Oral presentation rehearsal

WEEK 04
APR 15
Week 03 CONT’D Oral Presentation Week
Objective: (1) Interface Serial ADC circuit to Palm (2) 2 nd Draft of Web page Kevin: Demo palmRxSerial.cDave & Kyle & Kevin: modify palmRxSerial.c to interface the ADC circuit to the Palm.  Chong & Bill: 2 nd Draft of Web page (add pictures that went into Power Point slides) WEEK 05

APR 22
PALM DATA ACQUISITION, WEB PAGE TUTORIAL, FINAL REPORT 1 ST DRAFT Objective: (1) Final report 1 st draft (2) Web page technical parts 1 st draft Chong & Bill: Begin 1 st draft of final report. Collect Kevin and Kyle’s C programs and add as Appendix.
Kevin & Kyle: Begin 1 st Draft for Web page Tutorial on Palm programming (should contain mostly motivation and audience and step-by-step instructions in text)
David: Begin 1 st Draft for Web page Tutorial on ADC circuit (should contain mostly motivation and audience and step-by-step instructions in text)

WEEK 06
APR 29
FINAL DRAFTS OF TUTORIALS and PROJECT WEBPAGES, REPORT 2 nd DRAFT Objective: (1) Final Report 2 nd draft (2) Web page tutorials for technical part 2 nd draft) Chong & Bill: Submit 1 st Draft to Dr. Oh for comments. Final draft based on comments. Kevin & Kyle: Final drat of web page: Add screen shots and photos David: Final draft of web page: Add schematics and digital photos of circuit WEEK 07

MAY 6
FINAL REPORT WEEK
Objective: Wrap up
Chong & Bill: Final version of web page (add Kevin & Kyle’s C code and links to Kevin, Kyle and Bill’s web page tutorials)