Rose-Hulman Robotics Team

meetings/2009-12-13

Meeting 2009-12-13

Last all-team meeting before winter break

Hardware

  • Have the battery plate ready to go
  • Encoders ready to be mounted
  • Plates on the cases ready to be mounted
  • Everything done necessary for movement done by the end of this meeting
  • Once have vibration data on mast will design steadycam, order paneling

Electronics

  • Working on getting stuff wired
  • Need to order boards -- have gerber files made

Software

  • Made progress on camera calibration
  • Working on CAN interface and Kalman filter

Administrative

  • Looking at getting t-shirts ordered, passed around sign-up sheet
    • Either gray or black, with the team logo large on the front
  • Have gotten a few sponsorships
    • Advanced Circuits is giving us board manufacture
    • we have been given discretionary money to supplement our SGA funds
    • National Instruments are giving us some equipment, though we likely won't make use of it this year