Status Updates: 10/01/10¶
Week of 09/24/10 - 10/01/10
Current Projects:
- SURG - Traffic Navigation - Ben, Dan Shope, Dan J., Vinay, Dev
- We have a sensor installed and some problems getting nice readings. Code under development.
- Need to get line following started soon - next Friday.
- Ben needs help testing IR/Analog
- Dev writing line following
- Vinay writing bar-code reader.
- Has code written, ready for testing
- Dan J. working on testing sensor
- Different algorithm?
- Collimator for the sensor (Megan)?
- Introductory Labs - John, Alex, Joseph, Abe, James, Nico
- Biggest issue: document what robots work for Lab1 and 2
- People assigned to this: Alex, Abe, John H, James
- New members want to come in on the weekend
- Prize - we were going to reexamine after a week's progress
- Planning for Lab2
- Checkpoint after a week?
- Ben working on wireless test and referee (need anything?)
- Joseph working on writeup, partially written
- Introducing SVN and having them download the code that way
- Alex writing svn writeup and documentation
- Need to set up labs repository (this will make the writeup easier)
- Biggest issue: document what robots work for Lab1 and 2
- Diagnostic Station - John H.
- Goal is to order parts soon
- Update?
- Behind schedule, but making progress
- Got another engineer to help
- Scout - Dan Shope
- Sending for Scoutfly quote this weekend (1-3days?)
- Breakfly board design underway - should be done by next weekend
- 4th Mechanical Protoype - purchasing parts, testing
- All sensors now integrated into design
- BOM Test code (send,receive) - Evan?
- Similar to http://www.arcfn.com/2009/08/multi-protocol-infrared-remote-library.html
- Using modified Sharp protocol
- Bom transmitting digital data instead of distance
- Backwards?
- Most mechanical things almost done
- Still need Gumstix
- Website and Publicity
- Dance video is up
- I'd like to get this on the roboclub website.
- Good old ticket ideas
- Get the bad robots working. This is now high priority, need to assign people.
- ADC ref voltage issue (from Austin) 3.3 v. 5 volts. See if this is an issue.
- usb_put* function with fixed-width
- sprintf does it well enough, not an issue
- Battery level indicator
- Boot mode or hardware?
- People interested in working on it: Alex, Ankit, Prashant
- Better sanity check for invalid BOM type
- Stop the user from making the BOM "4.0" or something. Valid are "1.0" and "1.5"
- Check/Order robot battery clips - Nico
- Ordering 2 for testing
- Fix the pants later
- Look into fixing encoder code
- Administrative - John S
- Add new members to roboclub(8) after intro labs
- Filter Design - Emily
- Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan
- From last week: Speak with Megan - Ben P
- Did this happen?