MeetingMinutes20130924¶

Meeting times¶

High Level Software - 1:30 Sunday
Low Level Software - 5:00 Monday
Electrical Hardware - 12:00 Sunday
Mechanical Hardware - 4:30 Sunday

Intro labs¶

http://roboticsclub.org/redmine/projects/colonyscout/wiki/Intro_Labs

There will be a help session Saturday at 4.

Status meeting¶

Electrical Hardware¶

This week:

• Initial Meeting
• Started learning about BOM
• Assignment to learn eagle

Next week:

• Design new BOM and communicate design to software groups

High Level Software¶

This week:

• Trying to migrate rosbuild to catkin
• Ported dependencies of libscout, but not yet libscout
• Working on BOM simulation in simulator

Next week:

• Migrate libscout
• Get BOM working in simulator

Low Level Software¶

This week:

• Had our first meeting, talked about AVR programming

Next week:

• I'll be sending out info on checking out the repository soon. Sorry I haven't gotten to that yet. There should also be some info about it in the intro lab
• Brent's bugging Matt about the wireless testing hardware we were using last semester
• We'll need to rewrite the BOM code, but we need more info on the new BOM system
• Also still need the limit switch to be attached...
• Look into i2c on Gumstix

Mechanical Hardware¶

This week:

• Did Solidworks training

Next week:

• Continue Solidworks training
• Look at improving the back of the truck
  • No room for wiring
  • Redo cliff sensors
  • BOM changes
• Start looking a few weeks in the future about molding