Thanks to all the people who registered for the test-beds. Competition was tight, so apologies to anyone who missed out this time. However, based on the criteria and the pairs who applied, we have chosen the following groups (in no particular order):
tue15-harp: Cheng Wei Kong, Thomas Birch, Ryan Brendan Cassar, Isabella Ying Zhuo Ji tue17-bell: Beren James Sanders, Oleg Sushkov, Shihab Hamid thu16-tuba: Joseph Gentle, Julian John McAuley, Timothy George Pettersen, Natalia Monika Skorzewska thu17-bongo: Michael Van Der Kolff, Alex Si-Yuan Zhu, Ricky Friedlander, Suravich Liengsaengthong
This is based on the assumption we will be able to have 4 test beds. There is a slight possibility we will only have enough lego to build 3, in which case we will either have to draw straws to drop a team or we will have to work out some sort of sharing arrangement.
The test-beds will be run in the K17 building in weeks 11 & 12 to help test the project code of other students - so you have a tight deadline. There will be a planning meeting this week (10:00am Wednesday Week 10, K17-201B) and possibly an informal get-together on Tuesday. You will be mentored by davec in this task.
Stay tuned for further information (via email and this web page).
As discussed in lectures - groups whose project performs fast enough will be able to test their project on an actual (well... actual plastic) train network. We'll have up to four of these test beds for teams to use.
If you would like the opportunity to design and build one of the test beds, you can register by emailing cs1711.register@cse.unsw.edu.au with the following details:
Test bed teams are 3 or 4 students (the union of two project pairs from the same tutorial). The teams will construct a test bed as well as doing the standard project.
The work to done by the test bed teams will be less carefully specified than the formal project and teams undertaking it will need to be confident, smart, and self directed. It may well be harder than the rest of the project. We are not sure yet how we will mark it and it is possible that it will involve more work per mark than the rest of the project. We may even change the way we assess it retrospectively (ie after it is over) to try to make it fairer.
Do it for interest - don't do it for marks. Hopefully it will be a fun and rewarding task.
Note: registering your interest doesn't guarantee you will actually get the opportunity to do it. We only have 4 kits available, and we expect 2 to 4 times as many people will apply to do it as we can accomodate.
We will be selecting groups based on brownie points earned before the break and, to a lesser extent, lego experience.
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