This past week I have worked more with the communication aspect of our project. I have a decent understanding of how it is going to work, but there is a problem of being able to test the communication and especially commands with the actual wave lab. This is because we wouldn’t really know how to verify it is communicating with the lab unless we get in contact with someone on their end who is familiar with this sort of thing. From my understanding there really isn’t anyone with programming knowledge within the lab. We will have to speak with pedro to get that part figured out. Another thing that ties into that is the fact that we have to test the commands that are being sent to the lab. As we don’t want to mess anything up that will slow down the lab researchers, we would need a time slot to be able to test the commands with our web app. That could be a blocker as we don’t really know how open they will be in regards to testing and how often we can test our project. Other than that development has been smooth. I feel I can get my tasks done, but I might be waiting on other team members to finish their parts when it is all said and done. I believe we will need a little bit of time after the term is over to get everything to the point where we can deploy this and the lab researchers can use in replace of their old system. If we didn’t have to rewrite the legacy code I think we would have been done by now which is a bummer. I realized how important planning for these things is, even though it is nobody’s fault we didn’t see this coming. It is also a blocker that there is nobody that we can talk to if we have questions regarding the programming of the system because nobody is familiar with programming that we are working with.
