Colony Meeting
10.13.06
- Big Surprise
- Felix gave a pitch on the direction of the project (Controls)
- Colony got funding!
- See Felix's power point for the overview.
- Met some new members of the project who have lots of experience.
- Demo
- ColoNet
- Remote control from laptop to n robots.
- ColoNet
- Admin Stuff
- Group Updates
- BOM Squad
- Meeting: Tuesday and Thursday @ 7:30pm
- Goal: Work on the BOM and make it better
- Modify getMaxBOM
- Multimedia
- Meeting: Tuesday @ 4:30pm
- Goal: Parsing, file system storage, drawing pictures on the LCD, etc.
- Analyzing the music to find trasistions.
- Clean up MIDI Parser interface.
- Autonomous Recharging
- Meeting: Tuesday
8:30pm and Thursday
7:30pm - Goal: Have the robots seek a charging station when they need to recharge their batteries, dock, and charge.
- Prototype of the cylindrical charging station
- Needs to be tested, but looks good.
- Orbitting works
- Can get the robot to run circles around another robot
- You can orbit around to the front of a charging station and dock
- Move.c now works (there was an overflow error)
- Standardized wireless file
- Located in libs_general/wireless
- Wireless now has charging station hook ups, more to be done lat
- New approach to docking station
- iRobot style, using modulated IR to tell if you're in the middle a "docking channel"
- Meeting: Tuesday
- ColoNet
- Remote control works
- Dongle works
- Any packet and packet size can be sent
- Better user interface and wireless reprogramming will be looked into next.
- BOM Squad
- Colony Web Masters
- New New Webmaster: Ethan
- Job will be to keep wiki updated
- Colony Shirts
- Will ask Aubrey
- Midsemster Break next week!
- Meeting will still happen.
- SURG
- Met with Stephanie Wallach
- Wants to see the robots at the MoM
- Seems excited
- Draft is posted on the Wiki and has been sent to your email
- Read, track changes with the Word feature tracker
- Send your modified copy to Greg by Sunday (10/15)
- Met with Stephanie Wallach
- FRC Seminar
- Trestle Project
- Felix is on it
- Recover from disaster!
- Wednesday @ noon (10/18)
- Colony Project
- This is a big deal!!!!!
- November 29th
- We need to start getting ready
- Trestle Project
- Joke of the Week
- LoL.