Topics

Attendance

• Allen Brown - Scalawags mentor
• Dave Regan - CV mentor
• Jeff Rice - Scalawags student (soon mentor)
• Asumu Takikawa - CV student

Attendance has been weak since the competition season. In particular the PHS and CHS members have disappeared. I would like to hear ideas for how we can get them to come.

Current Documentation

• ElectricalPower20041107.html -- Electrical Power connections
• ElectricalNodes20041107.html -- Electrical Communication Links
• CvsInstructions20041111.html -- How to use CVS
• ProtocolCommandTable20041007.html -- Packet and Commands: Tabular definition
• ProtocolCommandState20041107.html -- Packet and Commands: BNF and State Diagrams
• DirectoryStructure20041022.html -- How the project is organized on disk
• Pictures/CallSequence20041114.gif -- Heirarchy of calls from packet on down.
• Pictures/cn_overview20041213.gif -- How the cn software will look.
    Dia source

Meeting Notes

We made a list of technologies that we could donate to the team, and possibly to the world.

• speed scaling (CV)
• autonomous state machine (Scalwags)
• PID Kevin Watson (CV)
• turn_nav (Scalwags)
• byte2int/int2byte (Scalwags)

Unfortunately we still didn't have an FRC to work with. We will next Fri. We will interface it to the coprocessor.

• Co-processor. priority: 1
• Data logging in the co-processor. priority: 2
• Interfacing 5V sensors to the co-processor. priority: 3
• Good diagnostics framework. priority: 4
• PID for servos. priority: 5 [example doc]

Possible Training during 2005 off-Season

Rather than explicit training, we can learn the skills below as we need them while debugging.

• C (of course)
• Soldering
• How to use Voltmeter effectively
• How to use Oscilloscope
• How to use Logic Probe

Schedule

• April 13 - location: TBA
  • Connect the FRC to the coprocessor board we have and test/debug existing software.