Status Updates: 09/03/10¶
Weeks of 08/27/10 - 09/03/10
OLD STUFF- Cleaning up old projects
- Need to get these taken care of by next week
- Filter Design - Emily
- Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan
- Speak with Megan - Ben P
- Library/Wireless Clean-up - David, Ben W, Abe
- Do we have our ultimatum?
- Flashback (last week): Ben will contact David and come up with ultimatum
- Do we have our ultimatum?
- Scout - Dan Shope, Ben
- Anything more on status?
- Board design finished, has been double checked several times
- Don't know where we stand on budget
- ETA to first round of prototypes?
- AT LEAST until March :(
- From last week:
- What is going on with the OS? Contact Brad
- Need to get boards printed
- How to get chip not being produced? Can we verify Kevin's design without chip?
- We purchased (5) of these chips, in stock at Digikey (fluke)
- Anything more on status?
NEW STUFF
- TICKETS
- Colony will start using tickets some more for certain tasks.
- Members can see current tasks on https://www.roboticsclub.org/redmine/projects/colony/issues
- DEMOS
- Instructions at https://www.roboticsclub.org/redmine/projects/colony/wiki/Demos
- Make sure everyone knows how to make demos
- SURG - Traffic Navigation - Ben, Dan Shope, Dan J., Vinay, Dev
- Notes: https://www.roboticsclub.org/redmine/projects/colony/wiki/SURG_Fall_2010_Navigation
- The development team has been designing and prototyping new environment sensor to put on each robot
- Our sensor prototypes didn't work well enough
- Buy some of these boards: http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/960
- Is this the only new sensor we need?
- Environment prototyping on hold until line following hardware is in.
- Start writing the sensor code to get line following ready. All tasks should be done, assuming the sensors work.
- Need to get more batteries?
- Get a set of robots that work well, then start fixing the old robots.
- Introductory Labs - John, Alex, Joseph, Abe, James, Nico
- Old labs: https://www.roboticsclub.org/redmine/projects/colony/wiki/Introductory_Labs
- Templates: https://www.roboticsclub.org/redmine/projects/colony/wiki/ReferenceColony_Introduction_Outline
- Need to review lab write-ups and make sure they are up to date. Need to get most recent version of library into .zip files.
- Need to go through and fix up as many robots as we can. Update front page of wiki. - John, Alex
- Introductory Labs status is saved here: https://www.roboticsclub.org/redmine/projects/colony/wiki/Introductory_Labs_Status
- Test using unit tests as well as using lab code
- May need to introduce them to Library? Maybe not for new members. Intro Labs Round 2? - Evan
- Schedule a time to present information about the Library, decide whether new members need to know
- How does documentation look?
- Getting programming working from scratch on different operating systems: do we have good working tutorials?
- Evan tells us about stuff
- Next friday: Even presents DIO.
- New Member Colony Meeting
- 09/10, what time?
- Advertise for this at the RoboClub GB meeting (09/03 @ 5:30p), with up-to-date GB slide
- Remind the general RoboClub list after GB meeting
- Prepare demos and presentation for the 09/10 meeting
- Advertise outside of the GBM?
- Set up meeting times
- Very Soon.