Status Updates: 10/2/09¶
Week of 9/25/09 - 10/2/09
- Introductory Lab Demo
- Lab1 - Target Practice
- Some people got really close!!
- Feedback
- Make requirements more specific
- Where to measure from on the robot
- Distances to travel / stop
- Make requirements more specific
- Coming Up
- Lab2 - Hunter-Prey - Brad, Chris
- Introduce wireless
- Use almost all components/capabilities you have learned about so far
- Lab2 - Hunter-Prey - Brad, Chris
- Lab1 - Target Practice
- Rangefinder Diagnostic Testing - Dan, Megan
- RANGEFINDERS ARE ONLY FOR - 10 to 30 cm!!! NOT 80 cm!!
- List of Replacements - MechEs
- Recalibrate Look-up Table - Dan
- Might require per-robot calibration (save bias in EEPROM)
- Change library functions (add extra error codes for too close and too far)
- Discuss Averaging Filter - CS/ECEs
- Include modular/configurable filter in the library
- Get Rangefinder Data Accessible on Website
- Coming soon!
- BOM Diagnostic Testing - Austin, Megan, Evan
- Finish Swapping Backwards IR Detectors
- BOM 1.5 Switching Speed - Austin
- BOM 1.0 Robot EEPROMs - Evan, Garrett
- Find Brad's EEPROM code
- Robot Intro Page - Emily
- Check here if you have any questions about robot components, how to use them
- XBee Unit Tests - David
- xbee.h does not expose most of the functions needed to test
- SWE Partnership
- Introduce high school girls to engineering and robotics
- Cleanup after yourselves
- Check meeting minutes if you need to look up info from meetings
- Check your email all the time ... that's how you will receive Colony info
- Part Order List - Jimmy
- Encoders - Austin
- Longer Range Rangefinders