MeetingMinutes20101008 - Colony - Robotics Club

Status Updates: 10/08/10¶

Week of 10/01/10 - 10/08/10

Current Projects:

SURG - Traffic Navigation - Ben, Dan Shope, Dan J., Vinay, Dev
- Sensors work now that other things don't mess them up.
  - Dev writing line following
  - Vinay writing bar-code reader.
- Ready for testing! Good line following for next week.
- Collimator for the sensor - Megan will work on it next week.
  - Mounting rather than collimating would be better, now that sensors work.
- Time to make a poster to drive on
  - Test how thick the lines should be
  - Possibly use a whiteboard, or black tape
- Order a full set for the rest of Colony - or for some of Colony.
- Nico will start work on a MUX so we can have all the sensors working.

Introductory Labs - John, Alex, Joseph, Abe, James, Nico
- Released today.
- Biggest issue: document what robots work for Lab1 and 2
  - People assigned to this: Alex, Abe, John H, James
- Planning for Lab2
  - Checkpoint after a week
  - Ben working on wireless test and referee

Diagnostic Station - John H.
- Parts Ordered!
- Mechanical side is largely developed, need people interested in interfacing the electrical system with the mechanical system.

Scout - Dan Shope
- Scoutfly v1.1 ordered Monday (6 boards) from Gold Phoenix)
- Breakfly DFM Testing Monday, prototyping next week
- New motors, now travels 4-6mph (walking speed) and still carries 5lb payload
- BOM Test code (send,receive) - Evan, Abe, Justin S
  - Similar to http://www.arcfn.com/2009/08/multi-protocol-infrared-remote-library.html
  - Using modified Sharp protocol
- Got a contact for Gumstix, sending a donation/sample request - Chris Mar

Good old ticket ideas
- Reminder to start on some of these as assigned last week.

Cleaning up old projects

Filter Design - Emily
Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan
- From last week: Speak with Megan - Ben P
- Did this happen?