Meeting Tuesday 11/04/08

Attendance: Kevin Burns, Jared Kent, Ethan Dedrickson, Nick Mueller, Ian Mcbride, Penelope Biggs

Agenda:

• Start manipulator
• Mount sensors (draw)
• Mark start point
• Program Navigation Code
• Blog!
  

Nick and Ethan talked about the design of the scoop. After coming to the conclusion that there will be a gate added and the shape will be changed, we began to draw some tentative designs on the chalkboard. Our final idea was that it would be flat instead of curved, and will have a gate on the end to keep the pucks from moving until desired.

• A possible method of doing this would be having a servo control the flipping of the gate so it flips either out in a similar way to a pickup truck, or flipping up so it only moves out of the way of the pucks.



• Later on, we will make a scale drawing to provide a much easier design to work with.


• We will cut out a prototype design of the scoop out of paper a few times until we get a good idea of it before we continue on to the design made of sheet metal.

Ethan Dedrickson

• We broke apart the rough beginning draft made by ian and then experimented with shapes for the scoop as well as its dimensions.


• For the gate on the end we have 3 tentative designs as mentioned by ethan we have the dump truck outward folding ramp, the upward opening dogflap or the double flapped doorway that opens into a ramp.

Nick Mueller

• I worked on making a navigation program that will go from the starting location to the near pucks, dump them and then score them. I was able to finish the program but it will need some revision; it will also need to be tested.
  

Kevin Burns

• I watched Kevin start a program on robot c that goes forward, turns and goes backwards. It all looks so confusing at first but it is really just a lot of writing and even though it is over three hundred lines long it is mostly empty space.

Jared Kent

Helped mount compass on top of pole.


• Helped Fixed the wobble in the base with a few more screws.


• Thought about where to mount color sensor.


• Then mounted it.

Penelope Biggs

• I worked with Penelope to attach some sensors and strengthen the frame of our robot.


• We managed to mount: A compass, color sensor, and a touch sensor.


• We plan to mount 3 more touch sensors to the other corners of the robot.

Ian McBride