Status Updates: 11/19/10¶
Week of 11/12/10 - 11/19/10
For next semester: go through tabled stuff
Current Projects:
- Materials
- Willis Chang and John H.
- Better terrain for hunter-prey etc. (Walls)
- SURG Mats (Paper, roads, reflective paint)
- Talk to photographer for getting more free large-scale paper
- Line-Following Hardware
- Drilling holes is ok
- Mount the line following sensors using mounts
- Keep in mind where wires go
- We should be ok to start without Nico
- SURG - Traffic Navigation
- Assignments
- Highways - Alex Z, Matt, Mark, Abe, James, Dev
- Intersections - Ben, Jeff, Priya, Alex L, Willis, Joseph
- Barcodes - Dan J., John S., Willis
- DEMO
- So far: drives on a line, some left turns work, highways work but not integrated.
- Todo: put in barcodes and highways, make intersections cleaner
- Merge linefollowing code into library
- DEMO should run for a long time without problems
- Todo: Merge sets of #defines (Priya's and Dan's) to not replicate intersection types
- Will work on this in and around finals, as time allows.
- Assignments
- SURG - Diagnostic Station - John H, John S, Chris M
- Got our new computer!
- Put an OS on it (Ubuntu Server -> Ubuntu)
- Mechanical assembly making good progress
- Exploring options for electrical side:
- Use a dragonfly board either as stand-alone or as an intermediate to a full-blown computer
- Use an Arduino as an intermediate to a full-blown computer
- Use a LabVIEW data collection system with a full-blown computer
- George mentioned small USB devices which give you access to analog channels. Might have to write drivers for it, though.
- Use a camera for IR detection - Evan has
- Got our new computer!
- Scout
- No new updates.
- Filter Design - Emily
- Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan
- From last week: Speak with Megan - Ben P
- Did this happen?