Colony Meeting - 3.23.07
- Updates
- No cookies — pushed back 1 week. Keep track of your dates
- SURG — done. Accept the invitation
- Encoder boards
- Don't hook up yet
- Wireless bugfix [AutoRecharge/scheduler]
- Timeout response
- Wireless upgrades
- Faster timeout
- Initialize faster
- PAN — parallel token rings
- Charging Contact v3
- Clamp-ish things
- Foil on the robot base
- (1.5 - 0.5) robots equipped
- IR emitters attached — bay 1 [need to hook up molex]
- Battery charging
- constant_charging.c
- 1.5A for 1 min (testing purposes)
- 30 minutes
- Initial battery test: 23 minutes charging -> ~1 hour robot time
- I2C packets sent
- constant_charging.c
- Homing on board
- Reads sensor data, sends all the time currently
- I2C
- Error codes added [UNTESTED]
- Tiny port not started
- RBOM
- Chip testing:
- Gilbert mixer is broken
- RSSI works (probably)
- Meetings Thursdays at 10:30pm
- Chip testing:
- Lemmings
- follow.c/h [Brian's BOM control law]
- Untested
- dragonfly/lemmingsv2
- New robots
- 3 boards soldered
- Charging demo
- Robots 1-4
- Charge boards on all (tested)
- Need to attach homing sensors
- Need metal casings
- TODO:
- Charging contacts x 3
- Homing sensors x 2
- Robots 1-4
- New milestones
- March 30 - Scheduler test: 4 robots, no task, trickle charge, few hours
- April 13 - Linear Docking station
- April 13 - Extended duration + run_around task
- April 20 - Multiple Bays
- April 27 - Increase colony size (6+)
- May 4(-) - 12+ hour test