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Electrical 2016

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Date & Time
Location & Author
  • 1/23/2016

  • 3 hours

  • Shapland Shop

  • Isaac F.


Work Completed

  • Installed java 8 and GRIP on pi
  • played with it but could not get a test file to load
  • Learned how to mount an external disk (usb flash drive) to the pi to transfer files
  • left to join über scouting

Challenges

learned how to list every file on the pi by accident hint: find /

could not find the GRIP.jar file that was said to have been created

Work for Next Meeting

  • Get a camera working with the Pi
  • Put retroreflective tape on the new tower
  • Talk to mecanical about having a encoder on their shooter
  • Help with making field elements
  • Upgrade Short-E to lastest robotpy
  • Upgrade DS to latest pyfrc
  • Upgrade to latest GRIP that was just released
  • Get Aisha added to Electrical FB group, if she wants
  • Finish spinning up both new DS laptops [Adam]
  • Keep trying to get GRIP ARM build to work on Jetson [Adam]
  • Work on wiring of RGB LEDs
  • Add the sensors back and uncomment the code if the Demos are over.
    • BTW in the case of the ultrasonic and contact switch they are both in ports 3. (ultra in Analog IN, switch in DIO)
    • Do around 10 tests with the ultrasonic to get a large number of datapoints from different distances.
  • Install correct version of GRIP and its dependancies to the Raspberry Pi 2.

On Schedule?

maybe - eveyone