Electrical 2016
Attendance
Note Info
Students
Mentors
Date & Time
Location & Author
Sarah H.
2/9/2016
3 hours
Shapland Shop
Isaac F.
Work Completed
- Isaac talked to mechanical and made plans for electronics positions on robot
- battery, breaker, and PDB go behind shooter
- gyro goes under shooter between the orange rails
- camera goes center back on bumpers? mechanical said it would work
- rest goes on 2 ~9x10 plates above cims, should be plenty of space from my calcs
- Caleb made the pdb mounting plates
- Sarah helped mechanical
Challenges
mechanical did not finish their drivetrain in a hour like they said they would
Work for Next Meeting
- Isaac needs to finish writing the pi set up guide updated to the new stuff
- OPEN GITHUB AND SYNC, even if you're not sure you'll be modifying robot code. When meeting is over, COMMIT then SYNC AGAIN. Just do this every meeting.
- Find best way to see/modify camera settings. Play with brightness/exposure/etc. to get the best isolation of targets in imagebefore GRIP gets ahold of the stream. Then adjust GRIP file to make the best use of that.
- On some websites, they connect the video to the HSV filter twice so that there are two intervals for each. Might want to check this out.
- mjpeg-streamer & GRIP can now start when Pi boots, still need to SSH in and shutdown nicely when disabled or match over.
- Find good settings for mjpg-streamer (Look into the fork)
- keep optimizing (It seems that brightness and contrast being near zero works extreemly well)
- Outline new robot code, using WPI commands style
- Get second RPi spun up and tested with GRIP, mjpeg-streamer, etc. for practice bot
- Catch Beta up to Alpha Pi 2.
- Check on spike supply and maybe order more
- Look for velcro to buy thomas want various strengths/sizes
- Work on wiring of RGB LEDs
- Look at Nolan's new and improved controls list