MeetingMinutes20100924 - Colony - Robotics Club

Status Updates: 09/24/10¶

Weeks of 09/17/10 - 09/24/10

Current Projects:

SURG - Traffic Navigation - Ben, Dan Shope, Dan J., Vinay, Dev
- Line following sensors arrived; one is installed
- Progress of sensing; different sensors seem to be set to different ranges.
- Start writing the sensor code to get line following ready. All tasks should be done, assuming the sensors work.
  - Ben needs help testing IR/Analog
  - Dev writing line following
  - Vinay writing bar-code reader.

Introductory Labs - John, Alex, Joseph, Abe, James, Nico
- Lab 0 Status
  - Dance competition is over. Opinions on how it went?
    - No, Weasley, From Russia with Fun, Furioius Oxen (Alex Z), Oops, Lamchop (winner)
- Lab1 Released
  - We need to document which robots work for this lab!
  - Postpone incentive until progress from week 1 examined
  - More ideas for Lab1
- Planning for Lab2
  - Checkpoint after a week?
  - How long will we give for this lab?
  - Do we need to get wireless working between a computer and robots to moderate?
  - Ben working on wireless
  - Joseph working on writeup
- Introducing SVN and having them download the code that way??
  - Alex writing svn writeup and documentation
  - Would this make it too difficult?

Diagnostic Station - John H.
- Meeting on Monday from 3:30p to 4:30p
- Goal is to order parts soon
- Update?
  - Nope.

Scout - Dan Shope
- Added arduino, it still works.
- Inventory work: Saturday 2:30p
- Prototyping in next few weeks
- Alex (freshman) has source for mechanical assembling, getting quote

Website and Publicity
- Trying to find pictures for Colony can be hard
  - Current videos is harder
- We should update the main colony page with new pictures and stuff.
- We should cut together the dance video, post online.

Cleaning up old projects

Filter Design - Emily
Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan
- From last week: Speak with Megan - Ben P
- Did this happen?