9.19.2008
- Stuff
- New batteries
- Charge them at 0.5 Amps - 2 hrs.
- Ordering 6 new wall chargers
- Charge board should work better
- New batteries
- Status Updates
- Library
- Analog
- Analog docs need to be updated (.c file)
- Encoders
- Look at initialization code
- Move to trunk soon
- Code needs Doxygen comments
- Look at initialization code
- Documentation
- Rangefinder and motor thresholds
- Binary does not match projects/libdragonfly
- Analog
- Colony Intro - James
- Work meetings went relatively well
- Battery problems and configuring COM ports were the main issues
- Need to improve lesson plan documentation on
- Charge bay homing beacons - Evan
- Definitely are turning on but need to figure out a way to test the frequency
- Try using scope for testing
- Orbs don't seem to work when I am using them
- Not sure if left or right needs to go at a higher frequency
- Look in auto-recharge code (#defs)
- Definitely are turning on but need to figure out a way to test the frequency
- BOM/Token Ring Test Code - David
- prints num robots in token ring, then a table of bom values to/from each robot
- currently, num robots in token ring returns 0 or 15 (max limit)
- either something not initialized right or a problem with that function in the library * Possible problem with robot IDs greater than 15
- BOM 1.5 Hardware/Driver - Austin
- Will have 6 BOM 1.5s assembled and tested soon - put on robots soon
- Confusing issue with shift register resetting, but have a software workaround idea
- Should test with normal BOMs next week.
- Bayboard Wireless - Austin
- Most of issues from before seemed to be a makefile issue and having an XBee ID too large
- Worked for a little bit, then stopped working. Requires further investigation
- Will try to integrate into dragonfly wireless library
- ID to EEPROM - Brad
- EEPROM interface ported for atmega128
- Dragonfly_Init/Wireless library needs to be modified to load robot ID from EEPROM and set XBee ID to that
- get_robot_ID()
- Library