10-07-2009¶

Project Updates¶

String section - Whamola
- Some parts constructed
- Steel arrived
- Musical parts? Doug? here?
- Finish contruction before friday?
- Install musical stuff on friday
- make it hand playable by next meeting
Wind section
- Airflow/Pneumatics - mike
  - lips?
  - plan out air system for full orchestra
    - flutophone
    - brassbot
    - bassbot
    - HiHatbot
- brassbot
  - lips?
- flutophone
  - mechanical objectives?
  - electrical/programming objectives?
  - transfer documentation to the wiki? (DanS where is it now?)
Percussion section
- HiHat
  - We got temporary cymbals: thanks Sandy!
  - Will be re purposing old snarebot
  - Will be using pneumatics to control foot
    - Side note: team members bring specific ideas to next meeting
    - need to rummage/shop for a good piston
  - permanent Cymbals: Dan? hows that looking? been in touch with the folks lately?
- Bassbot
  - Should be in good shape
  - Someone should optimize the hosing, theres some serious leaking in there
  - Captain: Doug
  - Documentation: Needs to be done
  - Experimental delay times for diffrn't strokes
- Xylobot
  - Its a percussion instrument, right? YES
  - Put on its own board
  - Inverter board - Nico status? need help? hows tonight looking?
    - Maybe we can reverse the polarity
    - inverter backup
  - Documentation - I need to finish it.
- Snarebot
  - @Dan Shope: help me help you.
    - Get me a timeline
    - Get me a budget
    - Get me a list of what you want me.group to do for you
  - needs to be done before november now that hihat has dibs on old snarebot!!!
Programing Section
- Communicatoin
  - Master
    - Simply distributes serial packets
    - Adminstrative commands
      - (in braces {}?)
      - ex sets play mode (buffered vs real time)
      - ex polls for the xylobot to see if its connected
  - Xylobot
    - Done
    - Documented
  - Percussion
    - SnareBot - unstarted
    - BassBot - unstarted
    - HiHat - unstarted
    - Should it include xylobot or is it strictly a drumset?
  - Wind
    - Flutophone - unstarted
    - Brassbot - unstarted
    - Held notes
- Interface
  - Major progress
  - what is our target audience?
  - Photoshop example: dshope
- Algorithms
  - ?

Administrivia¶

Roster?
- I would like a list of active users vs subscribed people
- do we want to give eachother contact info?
- potentially on redmine Wiki
andrew IDs
- i need them to set up code repository
Roborchestra website
- update the content?
- update the members area?
  - need a short blurb
  - see the example

SURG¶

Old SURG
- Where is it
- How much to change
Broad year objectives
- Improve interface
- Add more instruments
  - hihat
  - brass instrument
  - whamola
- public performances
  - skibo/underground
  - halftime of game
Money
- from individual project pages