The ardunio was slightly damaged in a tragic cleaning accident. Took several hours to get it functioning again. Which did not leave very much time for anything else. I did however make some progress on tracking down the variable corruption. I still do not know what the root cause is, but I was able to figure out a workaround for now.

The cold weather is causing the piezo sensor, http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=605-00004, on the door to give false readings. It basically just goes off constantly. It is a really cool sensor but I think it is way too sensitive for this project. I need to find a replacement sensor. I might just go with a typical magnetic alarm system switch. It wont be as sexy, but it should be more reliable.

The testing of the upload script suggests that it is working and seems to be very reliable, which means I can now start working on the web portion of the project. I will start out by creating the database tables and just dumping the raw data into them. Once that is working reliably, I will turn to analyzing the data and generating output.