Meeting Notes - Nov. 6, 2007

Attendees

• Yakov Ostrovsky
• Judy Maro
• Raymond
• Phil Long
• Phil Bailey
• Jim Cain
• Kirky DeLong

Update

• Mecahnical upgrades are about 90% complete
• The electronic have all be rewired and NI aquisition boards have been added
• Noise issues with the stepper motors have been addressed with shielding
• Currently, the absorption experiment is not complete - it is being replaced with a small carosel
• Nuclear engineering students will use the experiments in local mode next spring
• Unkown if the Junior Physics class will use

Next steps list

• Email Jim and Phil the labview Vi and sample data sets
• Upgrade labview version from 8.2 to 8.2.1 - Phil Bailey will provide the patch
• Camera setups, Phil Long with drop off a test camera to Judy and Yakov - this camera will need an IP address. The best way to play with the camera setup is to use a laptop to connect to the camera and take screen captures of possible camera positions.
• Check with Reactor systems people to determine if a building firewall exists
• Work on labview VI to make sure it stops correctly (Raymond)
• Create iLab wiki pages for the reactor experiments
• Upload sample educational docs onto wiki - powerpoint descriptions and instructions
• Have Mark update the visualizations - mostly likily in Jan. 2008

Meeting schedule

• Establish bi-monthly meetings
• Next meeting: 11am wednsday Nov. 21st (in the reactor conference room?)