10-14-2009¶

Section Updates¶

Percussion:¶

• SnareTom
  • Needs to be made
  • Needs to SUBMIT A BUDGET AND TIMELINE

• Hi-Hat
  • Need Piston
  • Need bore/force calculations

• Crash Cymbal next semester
  • Goes with SnareTom assembly
  • Put it on SURG

• Xylobot
  • Making hand circuit
  • Considering printed circuit

Wind/Brass:¶

• Brass
  • Continue research
  • Build spinny air thing
  • Test spinny air thing

• Flutophone
  • Fingers move!
  • Add solenoid valve
  • Add finger pad
  • Finish programming
  • Consider calibration options

String:¶

• Whamola
  • Finish contruction of instrument
    • Needs to be done BY NEXT WEEK to stay on schedule
    • We have a long weekend...
  • String the instrument
  • Finalize pulling/hitting design

Conducting:¶

• Communication
  • Testing on Xylobot

• Interface
  • Learning Processing

MONEY¶

Robo-Scholarship¶

• $500 to two projects
  • at least 3 have replied, estimated 6 will apply
• Need to present this sunday at 3:00PM. Who can help?
• Presentation Guidelines
  • Project overview (an abstract)
  • Current Team members & plans for recruitment
  • Timeline
  • Budget (with justification)
  • What do we want form officers?
  • Why do we deserve funding?
• Things we should emphasize
  • Size
  • Involvement
  • image
  • most likely to succeeed
  • good to show off
  • gets most non-engineers involved
    • we have music majors and performance majors etc
    • interdisciplinary
  • emphasize gig
  • lots of new things, despite being an old project
    • history of finishing our projects

SURG¶

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcmNSUVvNltNZGZnYzg4bjdfOWZwd2RoNjh2&hl=en

• Need to finish budget
• Need to smooth out written portion
• Things EVERYONE should do:
  • Make sure your name is on the project, if it isnt, let me know
  • You should read over the SURG, and then improve it. send me your email for access to the google doc