MeetingMinutes20080411 - Colony - Robotics Club

4.11.2008

Milk and Cookies
- 4.25.08 - Jason
- 5.02.08 - Eugene
Food Monday
- Pizza - Chris in charge
Announcements
- Andrew Carnegie Society - Saturday 7 - 9pm
  - Come out, hang out
- No meeting - open house, attendance required, 3pm
Project Updates
- Autonomous Recharging
  - Charge board debugging bottleneck
  - No other anticipated roadblocks
  - Brian helping Austin port wireless lib
- Charging Station
  - 4 in progress, contacts needed from Justine
- BOM 1.5
- Encoders
  - Issues with getting bytes
  - New high-level encoder code waiting on testing
  - Will start with P object manip code
- ColoNet + GUI
  - Joystick!
    - Controls robot with a joystick
  - Virtual wall
    - Robot will stop once it reaches the wall
    - Somewhat unreliable
- Object Tracking
  - No progress
- Object Manipulation
  - Swarm works for robots in LOS
  - Issues with orbit consistency and no LOS
- SLAM
- Branches
  - Purge is nearly complete
- Analog
  - Problem with buffering
  - Problem with free running mode and orbs
  - Analog8 and Analog_get8 confuction
  - Analog pins on robot, always look at schematic
    - Should modify the code to match the robot and not the schematic
- dragonfly_lib.c issues
  - Bad commenting
  - multiple sei() calls
Discussion Items
Monday
Anything else?
- You have to do some initialization after resetting an XBee

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