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Electrical 2016

Attendance

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Students
Mentors
Date & Time
Location & Author

  • Sarah H.

  • Adam P.

  • 2/21/2016

  • 10 hours

  • Shapland Shop

  • Adam P.

Notes

Attendance system literally can't accomodate how many hours this session took.  Setting to 10 hours, the max.

Work Completed

  • Nearly finished wiring and routing competition bot.  Only stuff left: gyro, LED ring power, sensors
  • Alexandre researched more vision code, started getting second Beta Pi up to parity with Alpha.
  • Isaac enhanced his setting-up-pi tutorial doc
  • Added steering auto-correction to mecanum drive code.  Moving straight forward/back or strafing now tries to keep robot straight using gyro
  • Tested robot code on comp bot, still needs some motor ID changes, wires reconnected
  • Changed port on mjpg_streamer webserver to 5800 to match approved ranges for competition
  • Somehow the GRIP smartdashboard extension started working again
  • Downloaded driver station software update but didn't install it yet

Challenges

Getting it all done/tested by bag Tuesday

Work for Next Meeting

  • Finish wiring & testing competition bot.  Anything physical on comp bot needs to be finished and tested ASAP.
  • New Bag Day Checklist doc on Drive
  • Install DS software uptate
  • Continue robot code, test shooter/elevation.  Also test working camera + LED ring on a real driving robot!
  • Work on vision processing
    • Faster this is done the more testing we can do with the shooting
  • 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.
  • Need to SSH in and shutdown Pi 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
  • 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
  • Work on wiring of RGB LEDs
  • Look at Nolan's new and improved controls list

On Schedule?

The answer is complicated