Meeting 2009-03-31

Administrative and budgeting meeting

Mechanical

• All 6 motors and gearboxes have been installed
• One internal frame needs machine shop work
• Will be manufacturing the 6 hubs necessary
• Hopefully will be rolling this weekend or Monday
• Still need to install the mast
• Performed miscellaneous odd jobs for the electrical team
• Mast has been screwed together -- now ready to run

Electrical

• 3 boards manufactured last week
  • Low power distribution ("Molex board")
  • Kill board
  • Motor controller
• Have laid out the power distribution shelf
• Need to finish routing the wires

Software

• Progress on image processing
  • Machine learning stuff added for
• Worked on upgrading Elphel firmware; will do that tomorrow
• Took calibration images with the mounted camera

Misc

• Worked on the SGA budget