10-8-06 Back to the Drawing Board and a Stand Still

(Drawing Board) My chemistry professor (Dr. Carl DeAmicis IUPUI & Dow AgriScience) has given me a great idea of how to design a "Smell Collection Machine" This way I could generate my own smells for the olfactory component. But for now its in design and I have been accumulating "smells" from all over the internet here is a short list of aromas that I have to command:

Burning Leaves
Apple
Oak
Grassy Meadow
New Mown Hay
Rain
Rosewood
Spanish Moss
Wood
Ocean
Forest Pine
Leather
Tobacco
Coffee
Basil
Bread
Graham Cracker
Mt. Dew
Toasted Marshmallow
Cedar
Clove
Smoked Beef

The construction has been temporarily halted due to storage issues back home in preparation for cold weather. I am going to take this break as a chance to really apply my component designs and the solenoid software. Funding is fair right now so supply gathering has been stopped for a bit so funding can catch back up. PAE is not over budget yet but the current path needs to be delt with. As you can see in this chart below (Yellow is real and purple is planned) the budget has used more than the allocated capital for each week. So now I am going to flat line it for 2 weeks and work with what we have to steer back on course.
In the past week my project has really slowed down, but as the project manager I have identified this and I am carving away the excess issues. Scope creep is certainly a factor here with these new ideas causing my colleges to suggest all kinds of new ideas, but I can only make a note of it for after this project. Otherwise this will never be finished.