Administrative Meeting 2008-09-03

Hardware

Things being CAD'd up
Jay will send an e-mail to Bodine Electric about motors
Steering
- Researching linear actuators -- cheaper than motors
- Working on making a SolidEdge assembly -- probably done my tonight
Don't know what "hardware governed" for speed limit means yet. Will e-mail competition.
- Definitely want to be able to go a full 5 mph on straitaways
- Really, the electronics is the only reasonable place to do it --- get a motor capable of going significantly faster and governing it down?

Brian got us a datasheet on some GPSs we already have that can do RTK GPS
- Trying to get that up this weekend
- Do have some RS-232 transmitters that could be used
Today will be working on design for dev boards
Digi-key order will be going in tonight
Motor controllers -- still desoldering
- "This waveform is bad" --Auchter
- All the MOSFETs that have been tested are blown
- Ordering 16 tonight

Andy's group working on line detection and image transformations
Tom's group working on path planning
- Working on software to create virtual maps for testing

Will Mathias from Ventures is here today. Welcome!