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2014-08-25 Thursday

 * Set up the CEB Press test machine. The solenoids are licking.
 * Group meeting.

2014-08-25 Wednesday

 * Moving lumber to a better place.
 * Helping in the Power Cube v7 documentation.
 * Preparing the CEB Press test controller board.

2014-08-24 Tuesday

 * Making work the 3D Printer.
 * Studying the steppers motors and stepper drivers used in the torch table.
 * Set up Infinoted on the Raspberry Pi that is running on the Wireless network at Factor eFarm.

2014-08-23 Monday

 * Assemblying the CEB Press testing machine.
 * Assemblying the Power Cube in progress.

2014-08-22 Sunday

 * Fixing the brick press. The teensy and the fuse are broken.
 * Order a new Teensy for the Brick Press.
 * I finally publish the worklog.

2014-08-21 Saturday

 * Fixing the brick press.

2014-08-21 Friday

 * Rainy day.
 * Fixed the test controller board. There was another pin that wasn't working.
 * Improving and fixing a bug in the new brick press code.
 * Fixing the brick press.
 * Covering the microhouse to protect it against rain.

2014-08-20 Thursday

 * Moving some boards to the old workshop.
 * Filtering and uploading pictures to trovebox fo the powercube documentation.
 * Found a Raspberry Pi. Set it up and now it's working on the "wireless" network.
 * Fixing the Brick Press. We didn't finished so we will tray again the next day if's possible.

2014-08-20 Wednesday

 * Cutting aluminum.
 * Fixing the 3D-Printer, started to print little pieces for its self-improvement.

2014-08-19 Tuesday

 * Uploading the pictures I took yesterday.
 * Searching contact info of similar organizations to OSE to improve social networking.
 * Replacing the saw of the bendsaw.

2014-08-18 Monday

 * Tuning and solving bugs on the new CEB Press firmware.
 * Cutting steel tubes.
 * Cutting aluminum.
 * Taking a bunch of pictures of the Power cube and the Composting toilet stairs building process.
 * Taking down a dom.

2014-08-17 Sunday

 * Melting aluminum.
 * First test of the new firmware on the CEB Press.
 * Adding new features and solving bugs on the new CEB Press firmware.

2014-08-16 Saturday

 * Group meeting.

2014-08-15 Friday

 * Assembling a structure to cover the microhouse.
 * Making work the pool pump.

2014-08-14 Thursday

 * Day off.

2014-08-13 Wednesday

 * Day off.

2014-08-12 Tuesday

 * Last day of the workshop.

2014-08-11 Monday

 * Laying bricks.

Microhouse Workshop

2014-08-10 Sunday

 * Carpintery: building modules for the Microhouse 3.
 * Pressing bricks.

2014-08-09 Saturday

 * Carpintery: building modules.
 * Pressing bricks.

2014-08-08 Friday

 * Microhouse workshop starts.

2014-08-07 Thursday

 * Mounting doms.
 * Preparing the Microhouse Workshop.

2014-08-06 Wednesday

 * Cutting, pressing, drilling bars for the doms.

2014-08-05 Tuesday

 * Mounting the rollers for the Brick Pressing "Factory".
 * Helping in the Brick Pressing line: carrying buckets, moving bricks. Good exercise!

2014-08-04 Monday

 * Cleaning/organizing the buckets at the workshop.
 * Moving pallets and pieces of wood to cut.
 * Moving soil for the brick press.

Velocar Workshop

2014-08-03 Sunday

 * Baked some bread.

2014-08-02 Saturday

 * Helping to print parts for the battery of the Velocar during the whole day and part of the evening.

2014-08-01 Friday

 * Built a picnic table.
 * Taking pictures of the Velocar workshop.

2014-07-31 Thursday

 * Seeting up the testing CEB Press.
 * Pressing some bricks in the production Brick press.

2014-07-30 Wednesday

 * CEB Press firmware:
   - going deep more into details of the auto-mode algorithm.
 * Fixing the licks of the pool.

2014-07-29 Tuesday

 * CEB Press firmware:
   - Review high pressure sensor flag support.
   - Review the auto-mode to make it fit the documentation. Reviewed the goToInitialPoint() sequence.
 * Cutting wood and wires for the MicroHouse.
 * Dragging the pool to solve the licks.

2014-07-28 Monday

 - Cleaning and reviewing the code for the CEB Press.

2014-07-27 Sunday

 - The whole day: writting the firmware for the CEB Press.
 - Helping to move steel bars from the workshop to the microhouse.

2014-07-26 Saturday

 - Resting day: relax, pool, more relax, some time writting code, more relax.

2014-07-25 Friday

 - Morning: Moving soil for the Microhouse 3. 
 - Afternoon: Writting the next version for the CEB Press.

Git repository: https://github.com/jaqm/Open-CEB-Press

2014-07-24 Thursday

 - Morning: Moving soil for the Microhouse 3.
 - Afternoon: Handling and measuring steel bars for the Microhouse.

2014-07-23 Wednesday

 - The whole day: bending bars for the Microhouse 3.
 - Some welding practice.

2014-07-22 Tuesday

 - Morning: Publicity team.
 - Afternoon: Workshop, handling steel bars for the Microhouse 3.

2014-07-21 Monday

 - Brick press team. Moving the head of the machine.
 - Grinding and welding during the whole afternoon.

2014-07-20 Sunday

 - Resting day.

2014-07-19 Saturday

 - 10:00-13:30: Preparing the arduino platform, visit to the workshop, first lines modified in the brick press' microcontroller code. 
 - 14:30-16:30: Coding the CEB Press microcontroller.
 - 16:30-17:30: Helping out to take out some sand.
 - 17:30-20:00: Simplifying and fixing the firmware of the CEB Press microcontroller.

2014-07-18 Friday

 - 9:30-13:30: Preparing the platform to code on the Arduino code for the CEB Press.
 - 14:30-17:30: Revieweing with Aidan the code of the CEB Press microcontroller.
 - 17:30-18:00: Visit to the Workshop.
 - 20:00-22:00: Working on the workshop. Start using the protection equipment. Some work on a tractor's piece.

2014-07-17 - Thursday

 - 9:00: Group meeting. Proposal to add a CVS like git to the OSE documentation system. We will probably use github.
 - 10:00: Teamwork to redesign the OSE documentation system.
 - 13:00: Video record to show the progress on documentation system.
 - 13:30: Lunch.
 - 14:30: Back to work. Made a power converter EU -> US.
 - 15:30: Continue with the redesign of the documentation and development system.
 - 19:20:
 - Adopting Trello for the DMAIC team.
 - Analyzing the existing documentation platform.
 - Setting up a infinoted test service, installing the gobby client, show it to the team.

2014-07-16 - Arrival

 - 19:00: Arrival to MCI airport.
 - 21:00: Arrival to Factor eFarm.
 - 23:00: Sleep