Colony Project Meeting 2.23
- Weekly updates
- RBOM
- Tuesdays, 8:30
- 'Nobody' showed up
- Gilbert cell-mixers are useless
- Need band-pass filter
- 10kHz
- Autonomous Recharging
- Electrical
- I2C interface through dragonfly
- Graphs can be created
- Constant PWM seems to work well
- Temperature steady -> stopping condition
- Next week: P/PD current regulation
- Do not unplug discharging batteries
- Electrical
- Scheduler
- (station) Bay allocation close for 4 robots
- (station, robot) Accept/Deny packets
- (robot) Need to do orbit-ish things
- See code: ~/AutoRecharge/scheduler
- I2C
- driver for dragonfly — master/master (switch roles)
- driver for tiny — no multi-master capabilities
- 2 dragonflies can talk
- charging (master) -> dragonfly (slave) communication works
- developing multi-master setup — needs to work on tiny
- wiki page
- ColoNet
- Listener works
- prints packets to a file [human readable]
- Parse to get fancy data
- Not much new otherwise
- Listener works
- Monitoring
- Firewire camera on a pipe above the table
- Computer stores images at ~1-2Hz
- images are stored on HD
- coriander to grab images
- Available on web if you so wish
- Need to do video sequencing/compresssion
- Fleet
- 5 robots built
- Need to make more BOM mounts
- 2 more LCD boards done
- All BOMs are in the correct orientation
- RBOM
- We missed the milestone
- We will redo the milestones after spring break
- We still need to do something cool
- 4 Robots with no task, 24 hours milestone will be done by Spring Break now
- Should be possible barring no hardware mishaps again
- Things To do
- Scheduler
- James, Brian, Feng, Chris
- Charging
- I2C: Suresh, KWoo
- Hardware: Brad, Austin (from Boston)
- Contacts
- Aneeb
- Other Important Tasks that Need to be Done
- Assembly: Duncan
- Colonet, Videos: Eugene, Jason
- Slave Driver: Felix
- Scheduler
- This Week
- Work = (Time needed / Amount of people on task) + K
- Video Compression must work
- Scheduler must have the moving part
- Update bay allocation to allow for multiple bays to actually work
- Build more robots because they like to break for fun (or the prophecy)
- Week after spring break
- Big meeting with George and Howie
- Show them cool things and they may give us more benjamins