Colony Meeting 4.27.07
- Updates
- Wireless Library
- Felix got mad because its for x86 instead of AVRs
- Can call most XBee functions
- Packets can be sent
- Token ring next
- Porting soon
- Update the wireless wiki page
- Scheduler
- Low battery check in
- Not tested
- Wrap around problem on the voltage sense on the Dragonfly
- Might be USB (not I2C) problem
- Lemmings put in the scheduler and worked better???
- Low battery check in
- Charging Boards
- Motors cause a lot of noise that the homing sensor detects
- Ground the beacon to the board
- Be careful. Don't cause electrical fires
- Investigate a lot
- Ground the beacon to the board
- Divide by 8 error
- Someone forgot to change the CLKDIV8 fuse
- Macro to set fuses correctly in the future
- Motors cause a lot of noise that the homing sensor detects
- Electrical Noise
- Electical nosie not fixed with a encasing
- Try encasing entire board?
- Debug program to see if we lose stuff on wireless
- Spits out wireless bytes.
- Other does stuff, see if we get interference.
- Needs to be tested # Send something to the computer instead?
- Log errors even
- EEPROM anyone?
- Electical nosie not fixed with a encasing
- Charging Station
- Charging parts are here. Now we don't need hotglue and aluminum foil!
- Epoxy and steel foil instead
- Charging parts are here. Now we don't need hotglue and aluminum foil!
- Colonet
- GUI works!
- Slight tweaks needed for charging
- Button to start/stop charge/autodetect
- Slight tweaks needed for charging
- GUI works!
- Avoid-obstacles
- Comment and wikify
- Robots
- No BOMS or Sharps left
- about 9 give or take a few parts here and there
- Put the final version of the charge contacts on
- Happy/Sad
- Porting to Dragonfly
- Works
- Converting to use an FSM
- Buggy
- Put into scheduler for more coolness
- Porting to Dragonfly
- RBOM
- Schematics in how the pros did it (EPFL)
- Need to rewire ours
- Figure out some problems
- Oscillator needs to be fixed
- Schematics in how the pros did it (EPFL)
- Wireless Library
- Events
- GDRS (Cyberdyne????)
- Nothing caught on fire
- They were impressed and opened up a cleaners
- Demos went well
- Owned by gap in tables
- Open House
- Felix talked a lot because he likes to (about robots)
- General consensus: Good
- GDRS (Cyberdyne????)
- MoM
- Title: Towards an Autonomously Recharging Robot Colony
- May 9th (Wednesday)
- Two Competitions
- Sigma Xi + Lockheed Martin + Give a talk, laptops for media
- Poster
- Three Parts
- Rough Draft Due May 2nd (Wednesday)
- Autonomous Recharging: Austin + Brad 'Master' <
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- Three Parts
- Dragonfly Robots: Fan + Duncan
- Colonet: Eugene Edward Marinelli III + Greg
- Presentation (Brad + Austin)
- Powerpoint + Use videos
- We will spam you for fun
- Colony Dinner
- We are going after the MoM
- May 9th
- Exact time and place TBA
- We are going after the MoM
- Joke
- The internet sucks for jokes. And bagels...what