Colony Project Meeting - March 2, 2007
- Announcements
- Fan is in trouble
- People who don't commit will be destroyed
- Take heed, commit or die.
- Tell Felix what you did
- If you don't do anything he'll write it in his log file
- So tell Felix.
- Fan is in trouble
- Weekly Updates
- Charging Circuit
- Charged more batteries
- Figured out a good termination point
- Very unstable though
- Certain batteries might suck now
- Robot usable...maybe
- Charging right now with fixed code
- Hopefully will go well
- Next week:
- Control law to control current
- Graphs are on svn (/docs)
- Charged more batteries
- Scheduler
- Bay allocation almost works
- Has issues
- If two request and one is charging, the 2nd is not allowed
- No orbit
- BOM/Sensor transition good (just tuning left)
- Need to make sensors level
- Has issues
- Bay allocation almost works
- Dock
- Ben made another prototype
- Need to coordinate better
- Linear BOM idea
- Eliminates orbit
- 4 LEDs per dock
- Circuit built
- Needs to be multiplexed (use 3-4 DIO)
- Bay allocation needs to be slightly modified
- Need Colony BFS (one day)
- Threshhold for localization code
- One charging station to get to the milestone for now perhaps
- We need a base case
- Ben made another prototype
- I2C
- We did some more work
- Interface done
- Two Dragonflys on the new interface first
- Not quite done yet
- Use old I2C for next milestone
- ColoNet
- Video compression done
- Client can connect to the server
- GUI was being looked into
- Ringbuffer
- There was a bug!
- Update your code!
- New init function. Read the new ring buffer code for how to use
- new-> make struct
- init-> sets amount of elements so wrap around works right
- New code is in ~/xfly_lib/
- There was a bug!
- Robots
- 8 total robots
- 2 robots/night avg => 1 week to full army
- Take on battlebots next month
- Recruit roombas for help
- Photo shoot for robots when we they are all complete
- Put new robot status page on wiki
- Charging Circuit
- SURG Grant
- Felix is giving a SURG presentation
- Saturday
1pm
RoboClub?
- Saturday
- James and Kevin (in that order) are heading up the grant
- See wiki for assignments
- Don't make us hunt you down for your part
- Don't write a page.
- Felix is giving a SURG presentation