Colony Project Meeting 4.06
Colony Updates- Austin
- Charging Station
- Multiple Bays w/ LBOM
- New circuit board and connections
- Indepedent control of each bay's LBOM
- Need to merge charging station code
- Charging Station
- Scheduler
- Leaving Mode
- Doesn't fall off the table
- Stops before the wall
- BOM Threshold
- Prevents bad readings (swerving)
- I2C Homing Code
- Fixed bug with state transition
- Works Well
- Not as good as direct from robot
- Blinky lights are cool
- less wires
- Leaving Mode
- Charging Circuit Boards
- 50% working/not working
- Salvage the boards from non-working ones
- New ISP header
- ISP may not be working
- Aaron will look into it
- Unreliable timing
- Need to fix code
- Move away from constant charging
- Control law
- I2C sped up
- 50% working/not working
- Charging Batteries
- Charging at 2.2A
- self-terminating
- not self-starting
- 25 minute charge
- ran for 5 hours
- TO-DO
- Robot goes to charging station by itself
- Charging at 2.2A
- LBOM
- Too dim o Needs less resistance
- ColoNet
- Fixed server bugs
- Client work
- Can't join token ring yet
- Kills ring when trying to talk
- Packet Sniffer
- Needs a wiki page
- XBee research
- Old firmware loaded
- Want to update firmware via X-CTU
- Unsuccessful
- Printed out XBee documentation
- In one of the cubbies
- Lemmings
- Strange bug o Motors interfere with wireless
- Only occurs when running motors too fast
- Probably noise
- Try EMF/noise reduction on motors
- Strange bug o Motors interfere with wireless
- RBOM
- Talked to Sullivan
- Try to mimic reference circuit
- Use sine waves
- Spice simulation
- Get schematics from other research
- Talk at GDRS (robot software company, not CMU)
- Need cool demos
- Lemmings + Cooperative
- ColoNet remote control
- Need demos to be robust (works first time)
- Need cool demos
- Roboclub Open House
- Friday of Carnival
- Colony is usually the best
- Need demos
- Work Meetings
- Start earlier
- Get more done
- Order more batteries
TO DO LIST
- Scheduler Demo
- Felix and Chris
- Merge Charging Station code
- Austin, Chris, James
- Cooperative on Dragonflies
- James
- LBOM brightness
- Aaron
- ISP
- Aaron and Bradford Master Neuman
- More Robots
- Duncan, Aneeb
- Charging Station and Contacts
- Austin, Feng, Ben
- I2C Tiny Code - Multi-Master?
- Suresh, Kwoo
- ColoNet Documentation
- Eugene
- ColoNet Robust Remote Control
- Eugene, Jason
- XBee Firmware Update
- Eugene, Brian, Jason
- Motor Noise/EMF Reduction
- Justin, Aaron
- RBOM
- Cornell, Pras, James
- Charging Batteries
- Bradford
- Joke
- Q: HOW MANY HAIR STYLISTS DOES IT TAKE TO SEPECITICIATOLIOSCAPOTOMISE A BLACKJACK'S SPOON-LIKE BEYODLE?