Log 11-03-2011¶

Main Notes¶

Attendance
- Present: Doci, Tom W, Tom M, Kaven, Priya, Graham, Ahmet, Nick, Chris, Peter, Jimmy, Dan, Jim, Julian, Danny
- Absent: Kunal, Matt, Sean, Jeff

Updates:
- New Mikrokopter Guardrail
  - We need to design a lighter version.
- New members, Danny and Ahmet
- Carbon Fiber is in! Time to build.
- Priya has tools, time to take apart the Kinect

Updates:
- MikroKopter built, flown
- Lots of new publicity channels, youtube, new email quadrotor@roboclub.org
- Quadrotor admin password sa**** - I won't announce, but let me know if you want it
Panda
- Need to get ROS communicating over wireless via a roscore on an external computer
- Get a router!
  - Djacobs: By Saturday.
- Test some version of RGBDSlam
- Test the new ROS-Mikrokopter drivers
New git repository
- I moved our old stuff over.
Carbon Fiber is hard to find in 8x8!
- We should just grab some aluminum and design the frame
- Need volunteers; design review in 1 week
Build guardrail
- Harrison created a model and emailed the guy at the machine shop
How to fly the quadrotor
- Come to meetings
- Spend 2 hours on the simulator (it's on bumblebee)
- I'd like to use the old quadrotor as our toy. Let's build that and fly it a lot.