Colony General Meeting
Friday, November 11th
- Cooperative Photovore
- Pretty much works. With moving
- Robots die too often for this to work
- Lots of theories, nothing concrete.
- Will try lots of voodoo to fix this
- Rolled back to the old code from the Summer
- All the new buffered analog and stuff just made it worse
- Not really sure what to do.
- Bypass motors. Seemed to work on Robot0?
- Robot0 is basically like the elder of the colony and doesn't mess around.
- Pretty much works. With moving
- Big CS discussion ensues
- Form and methods discussed.
- Encoders
- Feng's function works
- Not super accurate but it is reasonable
- New set of functions being created
- Will use interrupts
- Currently having interrupt problems
- Feng's function works
- Location/Homing
- Haven't been able to test (Felix is a robot monger)
- All the code is there but the homing doesn't work? <---Conflicting reports
- CFS (Colony File System)
- Works, just cleaning it up
- In CFS directory
- Putting in trig tables
- Custom button1_click or debounce will be added to the firefly+ lib
- Charging Station
- Powersupply that was used actually was limited to 0.5A
- New powersupply gets up to 1.4A
- Need a heatsink, it gets upto 150F
- Will get different FET
- Need a heatsink, it gets upto 150F
- Will try to use the power supply in the shop next
- MIDI Parser
- Uploaded to the SVN
- /code/midi/
- ColoNet
- Continued to debug the wireless
- Part to form the token ring with a computer
- Nothing interesting at the moment (too much outside work)
- Continued to debug the wireless
- Simulator
- Try to figure out how it all works
- Syntax of player has no documentation
- Work backwards from Ian's old code
- He is sad. Someone help him.
- Try to figure out how it all works
- Library Conventions
- No capital letters
- No spaces
- Attendence
- It was low
- Don't make Felix angry. Come to work
- New Robots
- Supposedly being made
- Supposedly will be back soon
- Presentation
- Brad presenting next week
- Emailed out the paper he is doing
- Read it so that you can contribute
- Title: Reward and Diversity in Robot Foraging
- 17 People. No grads. No advisor.