This morning I spent some time working out runtime errors for the JTAGTab file. I worked out the first few problems, but right before lunch I got stuck on one. It seems that the chopFront(…) function doesn’t want to write over the curInstName string, when it is accessed in the JTAGTab.c file. I do not understand this because up to this point it has done the same thing roughly 20 thousand times in the SVFParser.c file, and I don’t see what is different about this function call. I will try another approach to get around the problem.
During my lunch hour, Tom and I found network cards at the OSUsed store. We got two in case one doesn’t work. I’m going to put one into the old Windows95 machine that I brought from home and got working again. This is the next step in our goal to get Linux running on it.
After lunch I tested out the ENGR 201 lab involving burnthrough time on sheet rock. I set everything up and burned it with a thermistor between two sheets and another on the backside. The data was very good. It shows a solid increase in temperature, a difference in heat transfer between the two thermistors, and a time delay between the two. Also, it seems that the middle sensor remained functional much longer than we were expecting, though it burned out in the end. I set up another apparatus to test tomorrow.
