MeetingMinutes20110204¶
Meeting organization stuff:
- Nice job yesterday. We got a lot done.
- Plenty of hardware installed, and we verified that it works on at least one robot
- We need to make more wire components from this model, install MUX's, and finish the project.
- Meeting plan:
- We get a lot done when we actually work (only 4 hours a week)!
- Friday meetings: it's ok to bring your laptops and do work. We just want the rest of the project to know what you've been up to.
- Making wires: Alex Lam
Things to do next:
- Places Colony can go
- Mapping
- SLAM
- Forming a graph of a map or city
- Calibrating everything (this would be really cool)
- Colony Scout
- Debugging tools to display what the robots are thinking.
- Statusbot: hook up an additional robot to a computer and have it stream data one-way
Current Projects
- Diagnostic station
- Timeline for the hardware
- Last weekend: get the new parts ordered for the turntable, assemble the milled components
- This week: select and attach motor and baseplate
- Next week for electrical components and fixing the turntable
- Did we find a motor?
- We might need to just buy a motor, as well as baseplate.
- Using the atom - hook up our arduino
- Need to get more I/O on that to handle all the sensors
- Need a MUX board?
- Start getting software written (John and Evan)
- Timeline for the hardware
- Scout
- Dan Shope is coming this weekend!
- We should pick that up.
- 6 or 7 line-following sensors are installed
- Electrical part is tested and works!
- Need to finish mounting the sensor on the robots
- Electrical part is tested and works!
- New wireless
- Ben is testing a new library with easier send/receive functions.