Status Updates: 09/10/10¶
Weeks of 09/03/10 - 09/10/10
OLD STUFF- Cleaning up old projects
- Filter Design - Emily
- Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan
- Speak with Megan - Ben P
- Library/Wireless Clean-up - David, Ben W, Abe
- Ben will be working on this on the side possibly - not a priority.
- Scout - Dan Shope, Ben
- Working on getting gumstix
- Ready to buy boards!
- 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)
- Working on getting gumstix
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
- Needed: test demos on other operating systems.
- SURG - Traffic Navigation - Ben, Dan Shope, Dan J., Vinay, Dev
- Notes: https://www.roboticsclub.org/redmine/projects/colony/wiki/SURG_Fall_2010_Navigation
- Line following sensors are on the way.
- Buy some of these boards: http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/960
- 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?
- Buy new batteries now and save them until we start having problems?
- Introductory Labs - John, Alex, Joseph, Abe, James, Nico
- Reorganize intro labs! Make it easy to get to, and make an archive of old intro labs.
- 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 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
- Went well! Let's keep the members.
- Set up meeting times