Colony General Meeting
Friday, October 27th
- ColoNet
- Demoed wireless control over the internet
- We controlled it from a room across campus and watched with the webcam
- There is a problem with the dongle
- The board is messed up, not the chip. It's not marked but it will be soon.
- More work to be done
- Client program
- Server to handle talking from robots to server and clients to server
- Integrate server into the token ring
- Demoed wireless control over the internet
- AutoRecharge
- Charge Station
- Demoed the new low profile charging ring
- Charging
- Charging circuitry ordered, will be here next week
- We can amplify voltages using the AVR. Oh word. (10x, 200x)
- Requires two analog ports
- Can sense current draw as well
- Homing
- Demoed the robot homing in on a charging station. Works.
- Homing
- Locating Docking Station
- Works
- Merge Homing and Locating
- Charge Station
- Environment
- Make out of plywood.
- No transportation available
- Small one will be made out of foam.
- Final one will be nice
- Done as soon as transportation is located
- Make out of plywood.
- Marching Band
- Play in sync with each other
- Now will try to move together.
- Bug: One that receives the clock signals plays the wrong notes sometimes.
- File System
- If you have a lot of big constant data which you don't want to keep compiling
- Sort of done, but not completely ready.
- Cooperative Photovore
- Analog is still broken in buffered mode.
- We're going to fake it for now.
- Make the stuck value really high so it will be useless
- This is BOM0external link in the code or BOM1external link on the physical board
- This will allow us to continue forward on cooperative photovore
- Should've seen it by now
- Lists all our tasks, who's assigned, and how long you have left
- Winter and Thanksgiving break is blocked off
- Progress bars are updated as we go
- Assign tasks to people who don't have tasks at the moment
- If you don't have a task, EMAIL FELIXD at CMU.EDU NOW
- It will be on the web where it was previously (it was in an email from Felix)
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