Meeting 2009-03-10

First administrative meeting after quarter break

Hardware

• Box is mostly complete; needs just a little more hardware
  • Auchter has requested an addition of another level
• No progress on new frame until we have funds for motors and gearboxes
• Will work on the camera boom mounting plate and boom itself -- Wednesday
• CAD has seen progress; additional hardware and color added

Electronics

• Killswitch is progressing nicely -- will have board made for the robot this week
• Motor controller controllers done, need to be manufactured
• Moved some components to the box; working on finishing that up
• Picked a GPS to buy -- will be ordering that tonight or tomorrow
  • 3 m accuracy, unfortunately, but only $110
  • Can't use an RTK system because of communications restrictions, so not much to be gained by spending more.

Software

• Added gain tuning features to GUI software, including graph of motor speed
• Added Wiimote support to GUI