Jens,

As a requirement for CS194 I have to write you a weekly progress email every week.

This past week I spent most of my time setting up my environment on the samoa machine downstairs.  
I successfully downloaded and built Virgil and Avrora.  After setting up those compilers I downloaded 
a few example Virgil programs and compiled them down to AVR code to run on the simulator.  I 
attempted to use a few parameters on the simulator to get used it.  After I got everything set up on the
machine I started reading the TinyOS tutorial online.  Unfortunately I was only able to read the first 
tutorial because after reading the first I attempted to write my own nesC program that used the LEDs 
as counters.  I was unable to get my program to compile because of poor documentation on the nesC 
compiler.  I plan on talking to Ben about this.
This coming week I plan on brainstorming ideas for writing the analog to digital converter driver in order
to interact with the sensor.  In order to do this I plan on reading the documentation on the ADC and 
then studying the already existing nesC solutions.  Also I'm going to have to study the Virgil timer 
implementation, since any driver written is going to have to interact with the timer for interrupts.  At
some point I plan on downloading the already existing Virgil code to the motes, but that won't happen
until Ben can find somebody to help us.

- Ryan