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Office Policies

2013-10-07T02:14:46Z

Omsmith:

The following are the day-to-day policies for running the CSC Office. They are set down by the Office Manager or, should there not be a current Office Manager, by the Secretary.

# There must be an office staff member present in the office at all times when it is open.
# The office should be an inviting environment. Don't be excessively rude or loud; try not to make others uncomfortable. Use common sense.
# If someone leaves their terminal unlocked, don't do anything that might get them angry at you. Don't violate their privacy.
# Desks and wheely chairs are primarily for use with office terminals; if you are sitting in/at one and are not using the terminal, anyone may kick you out to use the terminal.
# Chairs are for people, not bags.
# If you leave your terminal and don't announce that you're coming back, or are gone for more than 5 minutes, someone else can take it.
# No sleeping in the office.
# No sex in the office.
# No playing games in the office unless for the purpose of an assignment or if you are writing one.
## This rule may be relaxed outside of business hours, if the office is not being kept open solely to play games and if the games are not interfering with or annoying people with better things to do.
# The office is not your locker; don't leave things here, especially during business hours when space is at a premium.
# The office is not your pantry; don't leave food here, especially if it contains common allergens.
# Clean up your rubbish.
# The stapler may be used only inside the office, or for club business.
# The office phone is primarily for club business. You may use it for emergencies and brief calls, but do not use it excessively or to conduct business.
# Don't play music when you aren't in the office. It's OK to leave with music queued up.
# Share the music queue.
# During business hours, music must be kept at a reasonable volume.
# If issues arise, office staff are expected to be the adults and deal with them professionally, rather than making problems worse.
# Any significant incidents, including harassment, must be reported to the Office Manager, even if they get resolved.

(Business hours are 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM)

[[Category:Policy]]

Office Policies

2013-09-20T05:19:11Z

Omsmith:

The following are the day-to-day policies for running the CSC Office. They are set down by the Office Manager or, should there not be a current Office Manager, by the Secretary.

# There must be an office staff member present in the office at all times when it is open.
# The office should be an inviting environment. Don't be excessively rude or loud; try not to make others uncomfortable. Use common sense.
# If someone leaves their terminal unlocked, don't do anything that might get them angry at you. Don't violate their privacy.
# Desks and wheely chairs are primarily for use with office terminals; if you are sitting in/at one and are not using the terminal, anyone may kick you out to use the terminal.
# Chairs are for people, not bags.
# If you leave your terminal and don't announce that you're coming back, or are gone for more than 5 minutes, someone else can take it.
# No sleeping in the office.
## No fisoozling with other peoples' pamgigglers.
# No playing games in the office unless for the purpose of an assignment or if you are writing one.
## This rule may be relaxed outside of business hours, if the office is not being kept open solely to play games and if the games are not interfering with or annoying people with better things to do.
# The office is not your locker; don't leave things here, especially during business hours when space is at a premium.
# The office is not your pantry; don't leave food here, especially if it contains common allergens.
# Clean up your rubbish.
# The stapler may be used only inside the office, or for club business.
# The office phone is primarily for club business. You may use it for emergencies and brief calls, but do not use it excessively or to conduct business.
# Don't play music when you aren't in the office. It's OK to leave with music queued up.
# Share the music queue.
# During business hours, music must be kept at a reasonable volume.
# If issues arise, office staff are expected to be the adults and deal with them professionally, rather than making problems worse.
# Any significant incidents, including harassment, must be reported to the Office Manager, even if they get resolved.

(Business hours are 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM)

[[Category:Policy]]

Machine List

2013-05-26T22:17:59Z

Omsmith: /* Speakers */

= Servers =

== ''ascorbic-acid'' ==

Ascorbic-acid is Sun Netra T1. Needs 'rootdelay=15' kernel argument to boot.

==== Specs ====
* Sun Netra T1
* 256MB RAM
* 2 × 20 GB Seagate hard drive, configured as a 34 GB LVM volume group

==== Services ====

* Runs ssh on ports 21,22,53,80,81,443,8000,8080 for user's convenience.

== ''caffeine'' ==

Caffeine is the Computer Science Club's primary server. It serves websites, databases for websites, and a large amount of other services. It is a [[Virtualization#Linux_Containers|Linux container]] at present.

==== Specs ====

* currently hosted on [[#glomag|glomag]]

==== Services ====

* Club and member web sites with [[Apache]]
* [[MySQL]] databases
* [[PostgreSQL]] databases (deprecated, not backed up.)
* [[ceo]] daemon
* mail was migrated to [[#mail|mail]]

== ''corn-syrup'' ==

PowerEdge 2950

==== Specs ====

* 2 × Intel Xeon E5405 @ 2.00 GHz
* 32 GB RAM
* eth0 ("Gb0") mac addr 00:24:e8:52:41:27
* eth1 ("Gb1") mac addr 00:24:e8:52:41:29
* IPMI mac addr 00:24:e8:52:41:2b
* 3 × Western-Digital 160GB SATA hard drive (445 GB software RAID0 array)

==== Notes ====

* Use eth0/Gb0 for the mathstudentorgsnet connection
* has ipmi on corn-syrup-impi.csclub.uwaterloo.ca.

==== Services ====

* Hosts 1 TB <tt>[[scratch|/scratch]]</tt> and exports via NFS (sec=krb5)

== ''denardo'' ==

==== Specs ====

* Sun Fire V210
* TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeño)
* 2 GB RAM
* 160 GB RAID array
* ALOM on denardo-alom.csclub can be used to power machine on/off

Currently offline due to faulty hard drive

== ''high-fructose-corn-syrup'' ==

High-fructose-corn-syrup (or hfcs) is our more powerful version of corn-syrup. It's been in CSC service since April 2012.

==== Specs ====

* 4x AMD Opteron 6272 (2.4 GHz, 16 cores each)
* 192 GB RAM
* Supermicro H8QGi+-F Motherboard Quad 1944-pin Socket [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/misc/manuals/motherboard-H8QGI+-F.pdf (Manual)]
* 500 GB Seagate Barracuda
* Supermicro Case Rackmount CSE-748TQ-R1400B 4U [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/misc/manuals/SC748.pdf (Manual)]

== ''potassium-citrate'' ==

Potassium-citrate is a dual-processor Alpha machine. It is on extended loan from pbarfuss. Needs 'rootdelay=15' kernel argument to boot. Might have bad memory, which needs to be investigated.

==== Specs ====
* Alphaserver CS20 (2 833MHz EV68al CPUs)
* 512MB RAM
* 36 GB Seagate SCSI hard drive

== ''taurine'' ==

==== Specs ====

* 2 AMD Opteron 2218 CPUs
* 8GB RAM
* 136 GB LVM volume group

==== Services ====

* Virtual machines
* BitlBee IRC instant messaging gateway (localhost only)
* ident server to maintain high connection cap to freenode
* Runs ssh on ports 21,22,53,80,81,443,8000,8080 for user's convenience.

== ''sid'' ==

Sid is a container with Debian testing installed.

==== Services ====

* Newer software

== ''freebsd'' ==

FreeBSD is a virtual machine with FreeBSD installed.

==== Services ====

* Newer software

== ''rainbowdragoneyes'' ==

Rainbowdragoneyes is our Lemote Fuloong MIPS machine. This machine is aliased to rde.csclub.uwaterloo.ca.

==== Specs ====

* 800MHz MIPS Loongson 2f CPU

== ''daystar'' ==

daystar is a Sun E6500 machine donated by Sanjay Singh. This machine is in the process of being set up.

==== Specs ====

* 15 full CPU/memory boards
** 2x UltraSPARC II 464MHz / 8MB Cache Processors
** ??? RAM?
* 1 I/O board (type=???)
** ???x disks?
* 1 CD-ROM drive

* [http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/csclub/sun_e6500/ent6k.srvr/ e6500 documentation (hosted on mirror)]
* [http://www.e6500.com/ e6500]

== ''honey'' ==

honey is a taurine clone donated by CSCF. This machine is in the process of being transferred to CSC.

==== Specs ====

== ''dextrose'' ==

dextrose is a taurine clone donated by CSCF. This machine is in the process of being transferred to CSC.

==== Specs ====

= Office Terminals =

== ''bit-shifter'' ==

bit-shifter is an office terminal.

==== Specs ====

* Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8300
* 4GB RAM
* Nvidia GeForce GT 440
* [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/misc/manuals/motherboard_manual_ga-ep45-ud3l.pdf Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L] Motherboard
* 1x 750GB Segate SATA drive
* 1x 80GB IDE Drive (part of a striped LVM volume for /video)
* Jacob Parker's Firewire Card

==== Services ====

* [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/office/webcam Office webcam]

== ''gwem'' ==

gwem is an office terminal that was created because AMD donated a graphics card. It entered CSC service in February 2012.

=== Specs ===

* AMD FX-8150 3.6GHz 8-Core CPU
* 16 GB RAM
* AMD Radeon 6870 HD 1GB GPU
* 1x 160GB SATA drive

== ''maltodextrin'' ==

Maltodextrin is an office terminal; it used to be Bartle's Box of doom.

==== Specs ====

* Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53 GHz
* 2GB RAM
* Nvidia GeForce GT 440
* [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/misc/manuals/ga-ep35_s3l_e.pdf Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L] Motherboard
* Seagate Barracuda 400 GB SATA hard drive

==== Services ====

* [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/office/webcam Office webcam]

== ''natural-flavours'' ==

Natural-flavours is an office terminal; it used to be our mirror.

==== Specs ====

* Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 1.86 GHz
* 2x1GB RAM
* Nvidia GeForce GT 440
* 320 GB Seagate Barracuda hard drive
* [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/misc/manuals/ga-ep35_s3l_e.pdf ASUS P5L-MX] Motherboard
* DVD Burner

== ''nullsleep'' ==

nullsleep is an [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/misc/manuals/ASRock_ION_330.pdf ASRock ION 330] machine given to us by CSCF and funded by MEF.

==== Specs ====

* Intel® Dual Core Atom™ 330
* 2GB RAM
* NVIDIA® ION™ graphics
* 320 GB hard drive
* DVD Burner

==== Speakers ====
Nullsleep has the office speakers currently connected to it.

==== Services ====
Nullsleep runs MPD for playing music. Control of MPD is available only to users in the "audio" group.
Music is located in /music on the office terminals

== ''strombola''==
It is named after Gordon Strombola.

==== Specs ====
* Intel Core2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33GHz
* 4 GB RAM
* nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS
* [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/misc/manuals/strombola.pdf Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L] Motherboard
* Seagate ST3750640NS 750 GB SATA hard drive


==== Speakers ====
Strombola has integrated 5.1 channel sound.

== ''acesulfame-potassium'' (decommissioned) ==

==== Specs ====
* Intel Pentium 4 2.67GHz
* 1GB RAM
* [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/misc/manuals/ABIT_VT7.pdf ABIT VT7] Motherboard
* ATI Radeon 7000

= Syscom Only =

The following systems may only be accessible to members of the [[Systems Committee]] for a variety of reasons; the most common of which being that some of these machines host [[Kerberos]] authentication services for the CSC.

== ''artificial-flavours'' ==

Artificial-flavours is our backup server. It used to be an office terminal.

==== Specs ====

* Intel Celeron 3.2GHz
* 2GB RAM
* [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/misc/manuals/Biostar_P4M80-M4.pdf Biostar P4M80-M4] Motherboard
* Western-Digital 80 GB ATA hard drive

==== Services ====

* Backup [[Kerberos|authentication]] and [[OpenLDAP|directory services]]
* [[MySQL]] replica
* Secondary [[Mail]] exchanger

Note: secondary mail exchanger is offline due to improper relay setup.

== ''aspartame'' ==

aspartame is a taurine clone donated by CSCF. It currently is our primary file server, serving as the gateway interface to space on phlogiston. As of Winter 2013, it replaces ginseng in partial functionality.

==== Specs ====

== ''ginseng'' ==

Ginseng is our primary LDAP and Kerberos authenticator. It used to be our fileserver. It is in the process of being recommissioned into a general-purpose CSC machine.

==== Specs ====

* Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180
* 8GB RAM
* [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/misc/manuals/s3000ah_tps_1_1.pdf Intel S3000AHV Motherboard]
* 4 × 640 GB Western-Digital Caviar Blue in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels#RAID_10_.28RAID_1.2B0.29 RAID 10] behind a [http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata2-9650.asp 3ware 9650SE RAID card].

==== Services ====

* Directory services with [[OpenLDAP]]
* Authentication with [[Kerberos]]

== ''glomag'' ==

Glomag is a newish server (as of Fall 2009) which hosts [[#caffeine|caffeine]]. Only syscom are allowed to SSH in here directly, though SSH to caffeine is permitted to all members.

==== Specs ====

* Intel Xeon X3450 @ 2.67 GHz
* 6 GB RAM
* vg0: 465 GB software RAID1 (contains root partition):
** 750 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA hard drive
** 500 GB Western-Digital Caviar Blue SATA hard drive
* vg1: 596 GB software RAID1 (contains caffeine):
** 2 × 640 GB Western-Digital Caviar Blue SATA hard drive

==== Services ====

* [[Virtualization#Linux_Container|Linux containers]]; see [[#caffeine|caffeine]], [[#mail|mail]]

== ''mail'' ==

mail is the CSC's mail server. It hosts mail delivery, imap(s), smtp(s), and mailman. It is also syscom-only. It is a [[Virtualization#Linux_Containers|Linux container]] at present.

==== Specs ====

* currently hosted on [[#glomag|glomag]]

==== Services ====

* [[Mail]] services
* mailman
* web interface to mail, mailman
* [[ceo]] daemon

== ''psilodump'' ==

psilodump is a NetApp FAS3000 series fileserver donated by CSCF. It, along with its sibling phlogiston, host disk shelves exported as iSCSI block devices.

==== Specs ====

== ''phlogiston'' ==

phlogiston is a NetApp FAS3000 series fileserver donated by CSCF. It, along with its sibling psilodump, host disk shelves exported as iSCSI block devices.

==== Specs ====

== ''sodium-benzoate'' ==

Sodium-benzoate is our mirror server, funded by MEF.

==== Specs ====

* Intel Xeon Quad Core E5405 @ 2.00 GHz
* 16GB RAM
* vg0: 228 GB block device behind DELL PERC 6/i (contains root partition)
* mirror: ~14 TB block device behind DELL PERC 6/i (contains mirror)
** 8 × 2 TB hard drive (RAID-5)

==== Services ====

* [[Mirror]]
* [[Talks]] mirror
* [[Debian_Repository|CSClub packages repository]]

= Other =

== ''sodium-citrate'' ==

Sodium-citrate is an SGI O2 machine.

In order to net boot you need to set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc to 1. When the O2 boots, hit F5 at the boot menu and type bootp():.

==== Specs ====
* SGI O2 MIPS processor
* 423 MB (?) RAM
* 2 × 2 GB hard drive

== ''romana'' ==

Romana is a BeBox that has been in the CSC's possession since long before BeOS became defunct.

==== Specs ====

* 2 PowerPC based procccessors
* Stylish Blinken processor-load lights

== ''goto80'' ==

This is a small ARM machine we picked up in order to have similar hardware to the Real Time Operating Systems (CS 452) course. It has a [[TS-7800_JTAG|JTAG]] interface.

==== Specs ====

* 500 MHz Feroceon (ARM926ej-s compatible) processor
* ARMv5TEJ architecture

Use -march=armv5te -mtune=arm926ej-s options to GCC.

For information on the TS-7800's hardware see here:
http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=ts-7800

== ''binaerpilot'' ==

This is a Gumstix Overo Tide CPU on a Tobi expansion board.

==== Specs ====

* TI OMAP 3530 750Mhz (ARM Cortex-A8)
* 512MB RAM

== ''anamanaguchi'' ==

This is a Gumstix Overo Tide CPU on a Chestnut43 expansion board.

==== Specs ====

* TI OMAP 3530 750Mhz (ARM Cortex-A8)
* 512MB RAM

== ''paza'' ==

An iMac G3 that is used as a dumb terminal.

==== Specs ====

* 233Mhz PowerPC 740/750
* 96 MB RAM

== ''digital cutter'' ==

See [[Digital Cutter|here]].

== ''Lisp machine'' ==

A recently acquired Symbolics XL1200 Lisp machine. dseagrav [at] lunar-tokyo.net wants us to drop him an email if we ever get it running, or anybody ever dumps the ROM images from it.

http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/12/03/symbolics-xl1200-lisp-machine-free-to-a-good-home/ for some history on this hardware.

==== Specs ====

Currently inoperable due to (at least) a missing console cable.

[[Category:Hardware]]

Space Project

2012-10-31T21:42:22Z

Omsmith:

So the situation is that we have been actively attempting to secure new space for the CSC for the past 2.5 years (a guess.)

The way we have been going about this has been mostly behind scenes scheming.
Originally, MathSoc came to us with the idea (mcgreco specifically.) Perhaps
it would be most effective at this point to assert our desires explicitly.

To this end j3parker has suggested we prepare a high quality proposal. This wiki page is for organizing the content-collection process for this proposal.

== Major sections of the proposal ==

We should make it clear that while we have an office, it isn't an office. It's social space, used by a large number of students. Expanding it would allow us
to continue using it as a public social space.

=== Usage Data ===

Data about our office usage: how many people (distinct vs. not) enter our office throughout the week, how much our terminals are used etc.

Possible collection schemes:
* Have office staff keep a tally sheet
* Record captures from the cameras at say 15 minute intervals, tally at the end of the day, and delete the images.

Data about our membership: fractions from which faculties, alumni, raw numbers.

Related to this is talk and event attendance, the difference between max in the office at a moment and event attendees will be a good indicator of space discrepancies.

=== Expansion plan ===

* How we would use the space:
** A mockup of how we would design the office with the additional space.
*** b4taylor and j3parker have volunteered to do early drafts in Google Sketchup
*** ehashman has completed a draft [[space plan]], to be discussed
*** Jack Rehder was initially opposed to tearing the wall down, due to renovation costs.? In particular, the floor will need to be refinished, so it's not simply dismantling a wall. Instead, he proposed putting a door (or two) in.
** Costs to go along with the renovations proposed in the mock up, and evidence we can afford it.
*** We know the price of new shelving, furniture is easy to quote. The hard part will be the wall price
** Expand our library to include the vast archives of ACM journals we have in storage.
** Centre of office could have a quality bar style table/chairs installed which would allow for better laptop usage, space for projects (working on hardware etc. is difficult in our currently cramped office.)
** Probably at least 3 more terminals. This is a very convenient resource for students and ours are constantly in use.
** More inviting atmosphere due to decrease in human density. (smelly, hot etc.)

=== Testimonials ===

* Testimonials from members on what CSC has done for them; from randoms on why they don't frequent the CSC.
** Possible way to obtain them: include the request (magic form perhaps) in the call for renewals, send it out extra early. Caveat with this: we miss people who have registered many terms in advance. Perhaps use csc-general and apologize to the duplicate set?
* Might also want: alumni testimonials, testimonials from out of town speakers about their impression of us, testimonials from faculty/recruiting people (this last one ties in to the section below)

=== What the CSC brings to UW ===

The school seems to be well aware of our classiness; the other day (and this is not the first time) a tour guide brought a family to our office and mentioned that we hold lots of events and bring in out of town speakers that "the university can't even get". The tour guide (not Gayle) was an adult and I imagine had no non-PR connection to the CSC.

=== Why other space is not suitable* ==

We may not want to include this section off the bat, but having the arguments worked out will be useful preparation.

I have said before and stand by the claim that the exec office is the only viable location for extra space. The main reason being that if we had a disjoint office, there is a tendancy to pick one location and stick to it, which is a negative for club cohesion (as evidence, i present the CMC office and the terms in which it sucked away subsets of CSC members.)

== Plan Implementation ==

We can present this to SCS and ask that they back our plan (no work for them, they benefit indirectly and they seem to like helping us) and we schedule a meeting with the math faculty admin + MathSoc. The goal would be to come up with a suitable plan for where to move the exec office such that all parties remain happy. When framed this way, I think our case is strong: we have an obvious use for extra office space, the location of the exec office isn't vital*, and there is very likely to be some space available.

=== Timeline ===

* Data collection, Due Oct 15
** Office usage: Get numbers from Orientation week until 2nd week of October. Store in a spreadsheet or something, at that point summary statistics are trivial.
** Member statistics: can be done any time, but should be done after fall recruiting so fall numbers are accurate.
** Event statistics: This one is harder, if we don't have any events before Oct 15 (which would be sad). We might also want to recall old statistics, though I trust no one's memory on these things.

* Expansion plan,
** Mock-up designs for wall removed, half wall, and doors in the wall should be prepared. To avoid lazy, disinterest, and interference from coursework, Due Sept 12
** Quotes. Once we have a reasonable mock-up we can come up with quotes related to it. Due Sept 30th, along with any mock-up revisions that occur when we realize how goddamn expensive something is.
** Detailed library inventory, size estimates, and expansion plans. This will help quantify the needed shelving and justify it. Since this is related to the [[Library Project]] and ebering wants to get it done, Due Sept 12.

* Testimonials, Due Oct 15
** Requests to csc-general and renewing members. We can, realistically, send these out whenever. Probably best to do it just before the start of classes, so that people are looking for school related things but also have time, say Sept 10
** We should probably specify a sooner due-date in the solicitations for testimonials, say Sept 30.
** Finding people who aren't normally CSCers can and should be done in two ways. There are the people who come to events but don't use the office (regardless of membership status), and people who have nothing to do with us. Should get commentary from both, but this will require a more personal approach, at least in the latter case. Try to have these in by Oct 15
** Other testimonials can be collected however, should be done by Oct 15.

* What the CSC Brings to UW and Why other space won't work. Due Oct 15
** These are just blocks of text, but we should send them through a few draft iterates. First draft Due Sept 12, iterate from there until done.

* Proposal formatting/typesetting/preparation, Due Oct 16
** Once all of the above is collected, we can assemble the document. This should go rather quickly, and take a day at most.

* Submit proposal and meet with SCS Week of Oct 17th.
** Beyond this, planning relies on a lot of other people so here the timeline ends.

= Office full pictures =
*http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~omsmith/office-full/IMG_20120915_000541.jpg
*http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~omsmith/office-full/IMG_20121024_160323.jpg
*http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~omsmith/office-full/IMG_20121029_214102.jpg

Finance:Budget/S2012

2012-05-17T22:34:25Z

Omsmith: /* Proposed Budget */

==Proposed Budget==

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Spring 2012
|-
| '''Revenue''' ||
|-
| * MathSoc Members || 151
|-
| * Non-MathSoc Members || 120
|-
| * Membership Fees || ??
|-
| '''Expenses''' ||
|-
| '''Social Events''' ||
|-
| * CSC Goes Outside. Est. Turnout: 25-30. Frisbee, campfire, food. || $60 Food. $40 other supplies.
|-
| * Movie night. Can we co-operate with movie director position/budget?
|-
| '''Academic Events''' ||
|-
| * 3 Code Parties || 180
|-
| * CSC CTF. food+prizes || 150
|-
| * Member Talks ||
|-
| * Prof talks? Budget N as afford, most would be for carry-over to fall ||
|-
| * RIM event. ask ehashman. ||
|-
| '''Events Total''' ||
|-
| '''Office Supplies''' ||
|-
| * CDs ||
|-
| * Whiteboard Markers ||
|-
| * Handvac for keyboards || $70
|-
| '''Office Supplies Total''' ||
|-
| '''Technology''' ||
|-
| * Tool shelf/box type thing for tools ||
|-
|* Bead box for electronics components ||
|-
|* corn-syrup replacement drives (2 x 1TB drives) || 2x$150??
|-
|* Hardware for HFCS ||
|-
| * 2x Computer mice. || $80
|-
| '''Technology Total''' ||
|-
| '''Miscellaneous''' ||
|-
| * Bank Fees ||
|-
| '''Miscellaneous Total''' ||
|-
| '''Total Expenses''' ||
|-
| '''Requested Funding''' ||
|-
| '''MathSoc Funding Cap''' ||
|-
|}

[[Category:Budget|Budget201205]]

Finance:Budget/S2012

2012-05-17T03:19:30Z

Omsmith: /* Proposed Budget */

==Proposed Budget==

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Spring 2012
|-
| '''Revenue''' ||
|-
| * MathSoc Members || 151
|-
| * Non-MathSoc Members || 120
|-
| * Membership Fees || ??
|-
| '''Expenses''' ||
|-
| '''Social Events''' ||
|-
| * CSC Goes Outside. Est. Turnout: 25-30. Frisbee, campfire, food. || $60 Food. $40 other supplies.
|-
| * Movie night. Can we co-operate with movie director position/budget?
|-
| '''Academic Events''' ||
|-
| * 3 Code Parties || 180
|-
| * CSC CTF. food+prizes || 150
|-
| * Member Talks ||
|-
| * Prof talks? Budget N as afford, most would be for carry-over to fall ||
|-
| * RIM event. ask ehashman. ||
|-
| '''Events Total''' ||
|-
| '''Office Supplies''' ||
|-
| * CDs ||
|-
| * Whiteboard Markers ||
|-
| * Handvac for keyboards ||
|-
| '''Office Supplies Total''' ||
|-
| '''Technology''' ||
|-
| * 2x Computer mice. || $80
|-
| '''Technology Total''' ||
|-
| '''Miscellaneous''' ||
|-
| * Bank Fees ||
|-
| '''Miscellaneous Total''' ||
|-
| '''Total Expenses''' ||
|-
| '''Requested Funding''' ||
|-
| '''MathSoc Funding Cap''' ||
|-
|}

[[Category:Budget|Budget201205]]

Robot Arm

2011-12-20T19:06:53Z

Omsmith: /* Operation */

= Hardware =
The arm is a [http://www.lynxmotion.com/c-130-al5d.aspx Lynxmotion AL5D].

= Operation =
Currently the arm is controlled by interfacing directly with /dev/ttySx or /dev/ttyUSBx . The syntax for controlling this is by sending the following string to the board:
<pre>
#<servo id> P<position> S<speed> T<time>
</pre>

You can control multiple servos with one command
<pre>
#<servo id> P<position> S<speed> #<servo id> P<position> S<speed> T<time>
</pre>

S and T are optional parameters

Key:
* <servo id> - id of the servo being controlled (includes jaw)
* <position> - servo rotation position, generally between (500,2500)
* <speed> - speed of rotation; 100 means 10s to rorate 90°; leaving this off generates fast movement, 400 seems like a "safe" value?
* <time> - time it takes to complete the motion in ms; specified once for the entire motion

if both speed(s) and time are specified, time is a "minimum" and speed is a "maximum", i.e. the motion will take at minimum T milliseconds, but servoA will move no faster than speed SA

== Servo key and degree of motion ==
* 0 - ???
* 1 - ???
* 2 - ???
* 3 - ???
* 4 - ???
* 5 - ???

= Purpose =
The current purpose of the robot arm is to make an entity that can play chess against a human.

= External Links =
* a manual
* j3parker's [http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~j3parker/arm.png 3D model of the arm]