Weekly status reports of the MCR and the NTL projects are posted here.
Previously, there used to be two separate reports. The previous ones are saved in the separate blog entries.

On March 4th 2009, Triton Engineering Student Council (TESC) in UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering hosted a dinner with deans for the first time. During the "green engineering" themed dinner, the deans of the engineering school encouraged multidisciplinary collaborations among students and faculties. As a computer science graduate student, I presented a short overview of a "smart building" project with Professor Jan Kleissl and Professor Paul Linden from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) department.

Here is the useful notes for writing Seacat 16+ driver:

The SBE 16plus-IM V2 SEACAT is designed to measure conductivity,
temperature, and (optional) pressure in marine or fresh-water environments in
moored applications. The 16plus-IM V2 has internal batteries and non-volatile
memory. It uses an Inductive Modem (IM) to transmit data and receive
commands over a plastic-jacketed steel mooring cable (or other insulated
conductor), using differential-phase-shift-keyed (DPSK) telemetry. No
electrical cables or connectors are required. The 16plus-IM V2’s built-in

Camera is up and running - instead of POE power, line power is used.

Wisconsin has had power fluctuation problems. In order to avoid this power problem, UPS is installed.