What happened this week:
- Software:
- solver simulator
- firefly version:
- bug fixes
- still more errors
- Mechanical
- Cubbies planned
- Drawing up on web soon
- Electrical
- BOM still gives weird error
- Different robots
- Old robots/old bases
- Different computers
- More work needed
- Gave up on finding range from IR intensity
- Sharp IR range finders instead
- AVR - no progress... yet
- Need Steve/Brian
- BOM still gives weird error
- Software:
- Ported code (pyro, BOM code, solver - not finished )
- Created basic behaviors (rotate, robot seeker).
- Experience with WinAVR and programming AVR/firefly
- Began experimenting with PID loops
- Mechanical:
- Transferred hardware on ~6 robots
- Experimented with blinders
- Designed and began construnction of cubby robot storage system
- Brainstormed gerbil robot
- Electrical:
- Researched IR ranging feasability
- Concluded IR intensity is not practical for range data
- Discussed alternatives for IR range finding
- Experimented with different photo-diodes / photo-transistors
- We bought things
- Communications experiments
- Passing square wave with IR
- Experimented with different photo-diodes / photo-transistors
- AVR
- somehow got botrics to do it for us (win!)
- Ordered first prototype, building + testing in progress
- somehow got botrics to do it for us (win!)
- BOM - LED placement (see .xls file)
- Researched IR ranging feasability
- ColonyIII
- Set up common code folder
- Implemented commenting standards
- wiki - used it, page naming scheme
- Came up with list of things we did
- Iain is quite the joker
- Started Iain's joke of the week.
- Motivated people to try new things
- Range
- Solver
- Test BOM blinders
- Finish cubbies
- Transfer remaining hardware
- Develop communication protocol
- Finish AVR
- BOM documentation
- Documentation in general
- Document boards (electrical stuff)
- BOM
- Better LEDS
- Better Range
- Different led layout
- Build gerbil
- More behaviors
- Get robots that move
- IR proximity
- Rework bump sensors
- Figure out a name for firefly2
- Autonomous recharging
- More behaviors
- Mount Sharp IR sensor
- User sharp for gerbil detection (many issues)
- Pyro protection
- Robot shell
- Meeting of the minds
- Ford
- High:
- solver
- AVR
- Cubbies
- Medium:
- blinder_test
- range finding
- Mount sensors
- Long-term
- Complex Behaviors
- Communication
- Proximity
- Everything else
Iain's joke of the week:
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2 out of 3 prefer cereal