Kelley's Capstone

We’ve come to a point in our project where we have the end in sight, and its time to spend the remaining time converging our code on a working prototype. Unfortunately, one of the things we came to realize together recently, is that the way we are implementing our data collection needs a refactor, but… Continue reading Highwire Act

Last Tuesday I had a surgical procedure done on my wrist to remove a cyst, and haven’t been overly productive since. Cysts are pretty common on the wrist, and usually they are no big deal. In my case, it was mostly fine unless I moved my wrist a certain way or had it bent at… Continue reading Wrist Surgery 🙁

As a team, we’ve started to finally get our bearings on how we can approach this project and end up with something usable as an MVP. It has been a very challenging road to try to understand an all-new technology stack (ROS), understand the intended use case of the researchers, start to get some of… Continue reading Making Progress

Like a lot of other people in this program, I’m already a Software Engineer for my day job. One of the most frustrating but valuable things for any given project can be setting up the work environment for rapid development. If there is a long feedback cycle between making a change and determining if it… Continue reading Environment Is Everything

I’m going to date myself a little here, but my first computer was a TI-32. It had cartridges for games like Q-Bert and Frogger and such, but the one that really captured my imagination was Basic. I was so young, I couldn’t do much more than print a string in a loop, but I remember… Continue reading How It All Started

Today was our first team meeting with Jorian, the master’s student who is working on the hardware aspect of this project. He walked us through the entire history of the project, current status of the platform, and how we can get started on organizing ourselves around the software development tasks, really interesting stuff! We talked… Continue reading Getting Started

Hey everybody, welcome to my OSU Capstone Blog! This is intended to be a chronicle of my journey through a not-yet-chosen project, along with a few other random thoughts that occur to me during the process. Hopefully you find it enlightening, or at the very least, entertaining! I graduated from college over 20 years ago… Continue reading An Introduction