Meeting 2008-12-09

Hardware

• Implementing the new design
• Need to find new encoders --- turns out the ones we picked out were too expensive
• Redistributed the weight on the testing platform

Electronics

• Went to order parts --- turns out that the one part that we depend on is out of stock everywhere; it's now only available in surface mount, so things are going to have to be changed
• We had a circuit board made; unfortunately the board doesn't match the Gerber file and it doesn't match the surface mount
• Decided on one large centralized enclosure for the new robot
• Going to move the circuit breaker relay to the board for each motor
• Got a GPS to print off an error message about an authorization key; the rest don't print out messages at all

Software

• Got the computer working again
• Got the wireless working

Misc

• Got an e-mail back from Ray Niehaus at Pike Central High School; he's very excited