MeetingMinutes20130903¶

Welcome back! These are just notes for our first meeting of the year. Nothing too formal.

Where we are¶

• Board
  • No new revision
  • Battery charging is partly working, but has issues
• Software
  • Various bug fixes / finalizations at the end of last semester
  • Everything is in ROS, but it's a pain
    • Slow compile times on Scout
    • Hard to learn
    • We'll consider some alternatives
• Low level software
  • Code in place
  • Odd problems with wireless?
• Hardware
  • Laser cut a tank

What we want to do this semester¶

• Board
  • Needs another revision, hopefully by someone new to spread the knowledge
  • Fix battery charging
• Software
  • Run ROS tutorials with new (and current?) members
  • Further bug fixes etc
• Low level software
  • Wireless
  • Testing and optimization
• Hardware
  • Bring in someone who knows about molding as a mentor
• Overall
  • No SURG this year. Effort / benefit ratio is too low at this moment
  • Some ideas:
    • Laser tag
    • 2d SLAM
    • Construction vehicle (aka candy bot)
    • Revisit forklift
    • Self-charging
  • Voted goals: self-charging and forklift