Status

It appears that Matt is going to try to pull a few strings to see if he can get us the access we wanted for the card. In the mean time, we have apparently received copies of the databases to begin working on the coding end of the project. This week I hope that we can get started on it. Carlos suggested dividing up the work at this point, and I think that is probably a good idea to explore. We are going to find out that we all have our strong points and weak points, and we will need to work as a team to complete the project.

Abandon ID Idea

Recently, Mike and I agreed on giving up in student ID idea on Friday after our class. We considered that focusing in the fingerprint idea would be better. There are several statements as to why we decided this. First of all, it seems that we are not progressing. We have to wait to get permission, knock on doors, get shut down, and open new doors. It seems like a never ending cycle. We all want to get hands on design and actually start building something or at least get the basic principles of our project. We still are not able to do this because we didn’t know if we were going to be able to use the student IDs or not. Hopefully, as we change route to the fingerprint idea, everything is going to fall in its right place, and we will be able to start the actual design and implementation of the software and hardware we are going to use such as: the fingerprint scanner, database, which Eric is in the process of giving it to us, and the actual requirements of our project.

Progression

Things seem to be progressing steadily. However, I have been a little concerned that they were not progressing quickly enough. I now believe they are. I have a tendency sometimes to worry to much. We are likely going to abandon the campus id card plan, and use another more accomodating technology; biometric fingerprint id.

Our timeline is beginning to take shape, and once it is done, we will have completed the planning phase for the most part. At this point, we will be able to move completely and confidently toward an execution phase.

I am excited to see how things shake out in the next few weeks.