Meeting Notes

13 Jan 2009 (13:00)

• Draper data followup
• Figure out plan for camera
• GIT version control
• Single Wedge Paper

07 Jan 2009

• Set goals for quarter

• Goals posted on old BDML website
• Aaron talked about bdml0 new twiki pages
• z-man draper requests for data
• Noe assembling data to send to draper
• we are having problem capturing data (ask sanjay)
• Aaron wants video of bilayer next week
• Aaron wants to experiment with lighting on camera

09 Dec 2008

• Interface paper resubmitted - thx to all
• Review autumn goals
• Review publication ideas
• Set date for next meeting

02 Dec 2008

24 Nov 2008

17 Nov 2008

• Trajectory specification discussion (Paul and Noe)
• Review new microwedge data
• Kim Turner slide request (Daniel)
• New single wedge data (Daniel)
• Resolve XPC network issue? (Kim)

Attending: Paul, Aaron, Noe, Kim, Daniel

Minutes:

• Reviewing the backing layer data
• Aaron notices slight trend with backing layer
• Aaron will generate thicker backing layer sample
• currently samples are in the range 150um - 600um
• Noe says DC connecter on board is unreliable
• Kim Turner slides SEM, bar graph, stickybot photo, scaling data
• Noe will assemble slides
• Daniel has bar graph, scaling data and sent to Noe
• Aaron will send Noe SEM and stickybot photo
• Noe will send out by 3:30 today
• Backing layer figure done this week
• Aaron brings up point of creating repository of figures
• After backing layer squeegees testing
• Aaron - idea for new paper with splitting, geometry, adhesion
• Aaron - january discussion of hierarchy paper

Action Items:

• Aaron will generate thicker backing layer sample
• Noe will assemble NIRT slides
• Daniel has bar graph, scaling data and sent to Noe
• Aaron will send Noe SEM and stickybot photo
• Noe will send out by 3:30 today

10 Nov 2008

• Noe presents software architecture draft
• Create outline of data and figures to take on test setup
• Review and comment on Kim's NSF proposal

Attending: Aaron, Kim, Paul, Noé, Jerry, Daniel

• noe discusses simple architecture for cabroncito interface
• noe will mock up gui's
• noe and paul will start work on trajectory specification and present next week
• aaron brought up taring accuracy issue
• make twiki page with objectives for new system
• Kim hands out proposal for comments

action items:

• aaron will get samples ready for testing
• noe paul daniel will plan out experiments
• daniel will get notebook for data
• daniel will make twiki page with testing queue

3 Nov 2008

• Review outstanding action items (5 min)
• Discuss Kellar velocity paper (30 min)
• Discuss Kim's NSF proposal (20 min)

Attending: Aaron Parness, Daniel Soto, Jerry Fuh, Kim Harrison, Noé Esparza

Minutes:

• Noe will send out system architecture for comment next meeting
• Aaron and Daniel will coordinate on camera mounting
• We will send out comments to gravish et al by 5 tomorrow
  • Aaron comment about lack of Eq 2 and justification for rate dependence
  • Noé commented about longevity comments and relevance
  • We want to verify velocity dependence on cabroncito
• Next week get list of tests and figures to get
• Daniel will find single wedge rupture distances upstairs
• Jerry showed interesting first attempts at microwedge fabrication
• Aaron and Jerry working together to brainstorm possible structures

New Action Items:

• Noe to send out system architecture document before next meeting
• Aaron, Daniel, Noe send out comments to Gravish, etal by wednesday 5pm
• Daniel to find rupture distances on single wedges
• Aaron will provide input to Jerry for possible structures

28 Oct 2008

Agenda:

• Noe presents Lew model
• Daniel presents proposed outline for paper

Attending: Noe, Aaron, Jerry, Daniel, Kim

Minutes:

• Jerry started with update of his efforts
• AI: Daniel: will send hilton head paper to Jerry
• Aaron discussing clumping section of paper
• AI: Aaron: This friday target for resubmission to Mark / Kellar
• AI: Everyone interested: read Kellar velocity paper for next week
• Noe presents Lew model and animation
• Daniel presents issues with proposed single wedge publication

21 Oct 2008

Professor Jerry Fuh attended meeting

Noe presented the DPS and microwedge fabrication process in detail.

Professor Fuh presented his drop-on-demand for microfabrication Resolution is on the order of 30 microns He told us that we can submit a CAD file and try to make with PDMS

14 Oct 2008

Daniel Soto requested wedge calculations from noe in order to match single wedge measurements.

Daniel Soto presented arm designs for cabroncito

7 Oct 2008

Paul Day says possibly two weeks to stage delivery from LANL

kim presented data on wet dps testing long term different liquids different surfaces wet adhesive that dries

wants help looking at raw data

i presented single wedge testing data and discrepancies between array results

action items

• Arrival of LANL system - aprrox. Oct 16th
  • POC: Paul Day
• Redesign of current arm system - approx. Oct. 9th
  • POC: Dan Soto (primary) Noe Esparza (secondary)
• Design parts for new stage - approx. Oct. 23rd
  • POC: Dan Soto (primary) Noe Esparza (secondary)
• System architecture draft - approx. Oct. 21st
  • POC: Noe Esparza

30 Sept 2008

NE, DE, PD, KH

discussed goals for quarter and posted at FutureGoals

action items

Daniel Soto

• set up new more accessible svn repository on yoda
• set up svn on darthsal