All-team meeting 2009-10-04

Hardware

• Colin has been working on the new backplane
• Got a free cinder block from the scrap place
• Trying to hunt down cheaper 80/20
• Working on the CAN model; Today going to research caster and other parts

Electrical

• New backplane for the computer; mounting it right now
• Auchter is working on CAN stuff
• Working on power-over-Ethernet adapter
• Jon is working on infrared proximity sensors
• Tried to get a CAN->USB board made; Gary messed it up a bit so we'll probably have to make it at Ventures

Software

• Have generally been doing research (focused on Kalman filters and vision stuff)
• Vision work with Python; almost to being able to calibrate them
• Got a new SSD for the computer; will Ubuntu on it this week

Misc

• Haven't heard anything from EnerDel; will send a follow-up e-mail today