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Electrical 2016

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Date & Time
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  • Adam P.

  • 2/29/2016

  • 3 hours

  • Shapland Shop

  • Adam P.


Work Completed

  • Flipped left drive motor ports in code to match wiring.  Might want to reverse wiring to match comp bot?
  • Finished getting Beta Pi up to date with Alpha.  One library was missing.
  • Got streamer + GRIP running automatically at Pi startup. All works well.
  • Fussed with .grip file a bit
  • Wired LED ring
  • Mounted, wired and tested gyro.  Drive correction is re-enabled now
  • Discussed camera strategy with captains. Plan is to mount a second camera facing forward to help align with defenses.  This will either be a second video feed on the DS, bandwidth/latency permitting, or replace the shooter camera's feed

Challenges

none to speak of.

Work for Next Meeting

  • Finish rewiring & testing practice bot. Get sensors mounted & wired.  Everything we can do while waiting on feeder & shooter
  • Find best way to see/modify camera settings via command line on linux.  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.
  • Work with mechanical to find position for new forward-facing camera
  • Drive correction needs changes to handle crossing the 0-to-360 border without making the robot spaz out
  • Start autonomous code
  • Work on vision processing
    • Faster this is done the more testing we can do with the shooting
  • 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
  • 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?

Nope.  Should have a fully functional practice bot at this point, not waiting on bearings to arrive.  :(