Status Updates: 10/29/10¶
Week of 10/22/10 - 10/29/10
- New meeting time!
- Monday and Thursday, 6:30 - 8:30
Current Projects:
- 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
- Lab2 Demo Day!!!!
- All bots checkpointed and ready to go
- RefBot also ready
- To the High Bay!
- Winner is: Matt
- Biggest issue: document what robots work for Lab1 and 2
- New Assignments
- Better terrain for hunter-prey etc. (Walls)
- SURG Mats (Paper, roads, reflective paint)
- John H.
- Alex
- SURG Barcodes
- Dan Jacobs
- John
- SURG Intersection Behavior
- Ben
- Jeff
- Priya
- Alex L
- Willis
- Joseph
- SURG Highway Passing
- Alex Z
- Matt
- Mark
- Abe
- James
- Hardware (Nico)
- Diagnostic Station
- John H
- Need an ECE person
- John
- Can Evan help?
- Look for new person
- SURG - Traffic Navigation - Ben, Dan Shope, Dan J., Vinay, Dev
- Awesome progress!
- Dan's line following can navigate intersections
- Ben's doubly linked list (of robots) works for intersections
- Time to integrate them together
- Sensors work now that other things don't mess them up.
- Collimator for the sensor - doesn't look like we need this anymore.
- Need to get supplies and make a map for the bots.
- Possibly use a whiteboard, or black tape, or printed
- Sensors and MUX's have been ordered
- Nico will start work on a MUX so we can have all the sensors working.
- Progress here?
- Time to break into groups and assign tasks
- Line Following/Bar code optimization - Dan J
- Intersection behavior - Ben
- Highway behavior - Alex
- Awesome progress!
- Diagnostic Station - John H.
- Mechanical side is largely developed, need people interested in interfacing the electrical system with the mechanical system.
- SURG proposal submitted
- Everyone should accept the invitation
- Scout - Dan Shope
- Scoutfly v1.1 Arrived! 5 boards from Gold Phoenix
- Began soldering/assembly on Thursday
- Breakfly arriving this week from ITeadStudio
- Moving to 100:1 ratio motors (3-4mph, 10lb payload) for increased torque
- BOM Test code (send,receive) - Evan, Abe, Justin S
- Similar to http://www.arcfn.com/2009/08/multi-protocol-infrared-remote-library.html
- Using modified Sharp protocol
- Got a contact for Gumstix, sending a donation/sample request - Chris Mar
- Scoutfly v1.1 Arrived! 5 boards from Gold Phoenix
- Talk to companies for funding
- Qualcomm
- SpaceX
- Good old ticket ideas
- Reminder to start on some of these as assigned last week.
- Filter Design - Emily
- Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan
- From last week: Speak with Megan - Ben P
- Did this happen?