Project

General

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  • Follow the leader chain
  • Ad-hoc networking
  • yield co-routine
    • fake multithreading
    • less overhead than multithreading
    • delay_ms -> yield
      • jumps out of function
      • you get control back later
  • firefly+ documentation
    • One page per file
    • Comment h file
  • Robot Changes — all 3 (not 0)
    • Countersinks to BOM
    • Bump sensors
    • Rewiring
    • BOM + Ranger wires on back row
      • Update code!
  • Bump sensors
    • Pullup resistors
      • Resistor in chip instead of plug
      • Connect bump sensor to DIO pin
    • Curled outwards
      • More effective
      • Do cover middle
        • Still front/rear only
          • Move bump sensors out
        • Bump pad?
        • Attach bump pad to robot base?
        • 'Better' bump detection
  • Robots fixed
    • RTC on 0 and 2 fixed
    • buttons on 3 untied
  • printf
    • needs to be put in firefly+_lib
  • hunter
    • Only BOM intensities to find prey 'tag'
    • Too sensitive - false positives
    • Averaging over 5 readings
      • :(
    • Sharp reading until minimum range
      • Go to BOM intensity
  • Salmon
    • Wireless problem went away...
    • Rangefinder problem
  • Website
  • MoM stuff
    • MoM on Wed.
    • Poster print on Monday
    • Tuesday - Meet in Roboclub
      • Finalise poster
        • Make a new 'good' video
      • Wednesday - showtime
        • Poster set up 8-10am
        • Stand by the poster for random people
        • Judges will come around during the day
Poster
  • 36"x30
  • Title: A Robotic Platform for Exploring Emergent Behavior
  • email with new abstract
  • Names: Move to top right
  • Logo: bottom somewhere
  • Boxes: Color boxes around text
  • Simulator images - larger, 12 robots
    • Iain - email nice screenshot
  • Consistency around lines
  • Poster focus
    • More behaviors
      • Follow, hunger, hunter
  • More pictures, fewer words
  • Flow to poster
  • Text:
    • Remove 'background'
    • Just ask questions
    • Bullets
  • Poster send out
  • Must reply by Saturday 7pm
Other
  • Make bom.h
    • Often-used functions
      • bom_find_max()
        • index and/or value?
        • two functions
      • bom_on()
      • bom_off()
      • bom_get(int led) // get value of LED 1
  • colony website
    o Make colony logo
  • Summer
    o Aaron
    o Felix
    o Ryan
    o Iain
    o Eugene
    o James (?)