ColonyIII - Friday Nov. 11 2005
- What happened
- Software
- Stupid behavior
- Bad control loop
- Face robot with IR on
- Stupid behavior
- Electrical
- RBOM
- Intensity - not reliable: sun, light bulbs, people, etc...
- Sharp IR sensor
- IR intensity vs. distance
- Somewhat linear at small range
- Inconsistent beyond ~9cm
- Assuming perfect alignment
- Pras
- Premade decoder vs. diy
- FPGA (flexible, logic) vs. DSP chips (filtering, algorithms)
- firefly2
- Schematics are out
- Eagle - free version available
- RBOM
- Mechanical
- Converted 2 more robots
- Software
- What's happening
- Software
- Test solver
- Draw pictures
- Behaviors - fix PID, movement, follow the leader, bump sensor program
- Open source robot simulator (look at it)
- Electrical
- More testing of LEDs
- Sand LED down - more even beam dispersion
- Buy parts (?)
- 3 different types of {photo-transistors, photo-diodes, photo-emitters, etc...}
- parts list needs to be finalized
- firefly2 - wait on final schematic
- Mechanical
- BOM blinders
- No more new robots at this time
- Software