Status Updates: 11/05/10¶
Week of 10/29/10 - 11/05/10
Current Projects:
- New Assignments
- Better terrain for hunter-prey etc. (Walls)
- SURG Mats (Paper, roads, reflective paint)
- Talk to photographer for getting more free large-scale paper
- Hardware (Nico)
- Trying to find DIO pins to use, may need to make a new cable
- Going to high-jack BOM control lines
- Nico will look for help in an email
- SURG - Traffic Navigation
- Highways - Alex Z, Matt, Mark, Abe, James, Dev
- Initial map created
- Tried using encoders, but those sensors weren't connected
- Lane change functionality added
- Next to focus on passing (try using BOMs to tell when you've passed someone)
- Intersections - Ben, Jeff, Priya, Alex L, Willis, Joseph
- Linked list idea appears to work after testing with 2 robots
- Dan cleaned up turning in the code
- May have working intersection code by next Friday
- Barcodes - Dan J., John S.
- Spacing? Talk of using different foreground/background colors?
- Highways - Alex Z, Matt, Mark, Abe, James, Dev
- SURG - Diagnostic Station - John H, John S, Chris M
- Mechanical system needs to be assembled
- Exploring options for electrical side:
- Use a dragonfly board either as stand-alone or as an intermediate to a full-blown computer
- Use an Arduino as an intermediate to a full-blown computer
- Use a LabVIEW data collection system with a full-blown computer
- Obtain an Atom computer
- Does not come with an OS. Would have to troubleshoot this.
- George mentioned small USB devices which give you access to analog channels. Might have to write drivers for it, though.
- Scout - Dan Shope
- Scoutfly v1.1 Arrived! 5 boards from Gold Phoenix
- Began soldering/assembly on Thursday
- Breakfly arriving this week from ITeadStudio
- Moving to 100:1 ratio motors (3-4mph, 10lb payload) for increased torque
- Port Scheduler - Evan, Abe, Justin S
- Got a contact for Gumstix, sending a donation/sample request - Chris Mar
- OS / Gumstix - Dan S., Jeff, Ben, Abe?, Chris?, Evan?
- Wednesday @ 9:30p
- Scoutfly v1.1 Arrived! 5 boards from Gold Phoenix
- Good old ticket ideas
- Reminder to start on some of these as assigned last week.
- Filter Design - Emily
- Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan
- From last week: Speak with Megan - Ben P
- Did this happen?