Status Updates: 11/12/10¶
Week of 10/30/10 - 11/12/10
Current Projects:
- New Assignments
- Better terrain for hunter-prey etc. (Walls)
- SURG Mats (Paper, roads, reflective paint)
- Talk to photographer for getting more free large-scale paper
- Hardware (Nico)
- Will have it done by Monday night / Tuesday Morning
- SURG - Traffic Navigation
- 213 and 211 caused trouble this week
- Highways - Alex Z, Matt, Mark, Abe, James, Dev
- Initial map created
- Tried using encoders, but those sensors weren't connected
- Lane change functionality added
- Next to focus on passing (try using BOMs to tell when you've passed someone)
- Intersections - Ben, Jeff, Priya, Alex L, Willis, Joseph, Vinay
- Sub-sub-projects making progress
- None done yet or ready for a demo
- Committing to DEMO next Friday!
- Barcodes - Dan J., John S., Willis
- Spacing? Talk of using different foreground/background colors?
- Need to start barcode database
- Need to come up with how to partition barcode
- SURG - Diagnostic Station - John H, John S, Chris M
- WE GOT IT!!!!
- $938
- Mechanical assembly making good progress
- Exploring options for electrical side:
- Use a dragonfly board either as stand-alone or as an intermediate to a full-blown computer
- Use an Arduino as an intermediate to a full-blown computer
- Use a LabVIEW data collection system with a full-blown computer
- Obtain an Atom computer
- Does not come with an OS. Would have to troubleshoot this.
- George mentioned small USB devices which give you access to analog channels. Might have to write drivers for it, though.
- WE GOT IT!!!!
- Scout - Dan Shope
- Had good meeting on Wednesday
- Scheduler
- Evan to look into Justin's code
- Austin made schedule for snake lab. Evan will investigate.
- Max B. graciously loaning us one of the AVRs
- AVR is sot of like a priority queue for communication
- Purchased GUMSTIX!
- Looking into ROS, specifically GUMROS.
- Soon to have REAL code on AVR, fake code on GUMSTIX
- Make Wednesday 9:30
- 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?