Plans looking forward

Most of this week was shot, due to Mike's eye surgery, other medical issues, and then catching up on various things that had fallen behind due to all that.

Gordon did, however, generate result data from runs (13) and (14). Also, he reported that there were no serial errors detected in these runs. Yay!

My plan looking forward is:

• Start another data-collection run this afternoon to go over this weekend (& for as long as possible afterwards, maybe get a whole week this time).
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• Do graphs in SciLab based on data runs we have so far.
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• Now that we have the FEDM board, maybe fiddle around with Sachin's code and see if I can add a Nios to it, for purposes of doing data transfer via the serial port (as we had originally intended).
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• Also look at LabView's capabilities in more detail, and consider what's involved in doing the data analysis and results plotting in it instead of in Python (as I was originally planning).

As a side project (to do at home on my own time), I am also contemplating at some point developing a higher-level interpreted language to run on top of UWScript, for purposes of getting around the various annoying arbitrary limitations of the existing language (no forward calls, 64K code size limit, no multithreading, etc., etc.). I could do *so* much better! This would then make it possible to expand the autorun script to support a broader range of applications, to be more dynamically reconfigurable, to handle network failures more robustly, etc., etc.