Colony Project Meeting
October 20, 2006
- What do we want to show off?
- Ad hoc wireless
- Cooperative Photovore <--
- Marching band (maybe)
- Charging demo
- show off one or two working behaviors/demos
- show off current work (prototypes)
- Steps to getting things done:
- Need maze walls — environment walls + base
- Finish coop photovore
- Videos are better?
- DEADLINE: Friday November 10 — demo coop photovore @ project meeting
- 3 weeks
- Photovore;
- Environment — Ben
- Light sensing
- Movement (lemmings)
- Photovore
- Invite people to club at seminar
Status updates:
- AR
- Wireless — good idea of what to do
- Bugs are gone
- Charging station <--> Requesting Robot
- Find bearing to station using BOM
- Charging station is NOT in token ring — only responds to requests
- Move now
- Beacon
- Code is bad — COMMENT YOUR CODE!
- Circuit is crazy — COMMENT YOUR CIRCUITS!
- More work
- Charging station
- Preliminary testing with new batteries (no circuit)
- Lots of sitting...
- Need circuit soon
- Charging station
- Physical prototype of awesomeness
- Demo
- Wireless — good idea of what to do
- Robot Orbit
- Really cool
- Radius is a parameter
- More work to be done later
- Position Control
- Started
- Marching Band
- Music synchronization over wireless
- Movement (spin, move forwards/back, shapes)
- Manually input transitions for now
- Shoot for demo before FRC seminar
- ColoNet
- Wireless programming
- On hold
- ColoNet compatible with token ring
- 3 applications
- Robot End
- Server End
- Client End
- Wireless programming
- New robot
- Beta version coming next week
- Test: robot, battery charging, etc...
- Finish writing library
- Final version going out mid-November(ish)
- Comes back December
- Beta version coming next week
- Cooperative Photovore:
- BOM:
- getMaxBom with threshold — works
- Analog problems
- Make sure it works - fix it
- BOM:
- File system for EEPROM
- Store music files
- One more week
- Robot 4
- Probably broken
- Wiki status
- Bug page
- Keep adding to it
Colony Plan:
- Read it over — send comments by Sunday, 11:59pm
- Respond to felixd@cmu even if no comments