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9/1/17

Goals:
- Fill out team contract
- Figure out github

Notes:

9/8/17

Goals:
- Work toward completing milestone 1
- Create state machine to implement turns
- Find best sensor orientation
- Start mechanical design

Notes:

9/11/17

Goals:
- Discuss Milestone 1
    - State machine model
    - Ideas?
- Mechanical Design
- Looking ahead
- Lab 2 Prelab

Notes:
- Milestone 1 due week 5 - next Wednesday
    - Step 1: look at hard right turn. Make sure robot is not travelling
    - Step 2: look at physical positioning of sensors
    - Dedicate at least 1 open lab session this week
        - Tuesday - Leandro and Tejas and Jen, 1-2:30
        - Friday - 1:30 - 4:30
           Maria, Josh, Jen, Dean, Leandro

- Mechanical Design
    - Might get update from Jen next Monday meeting

- Looking Ahead
    - Everyone read through schedule/requirements, bring thoughts/ideas for top down planning meeting next Monday

9/15/17

Goals:
- Milestone 1
- Lab 2

Notes:
- Milestone 1 
    - Tejas will document
    - Has to go up by Wed

- Reorganize Github
    - Leandro will make a navigation bar

- Lab 2
    - Due friday
    - Microphone team - build and test circuit - Josh and Maria will go in at 3:30 today
    - Dean Leandro will go in today at 3:30 to work on treasure sensor

9/18/17

Goals:

Notes:
- Lab 2 and Milestone 1 due Wednesday!!
    - Microphone Team

- Monday evening/Tuesday
    - Optical Team
    
- Tuesday
    - Have most things done by lab time so we can work on milestone 2
    - Next meeting: explain milestone 1/different parts of lab 2
    - MILESTONE 2 DUE NEXT WEEK

- Mechanical
    - Different design options, omni wheels are the fav but everything needs more research

9/29/17

Goals:
- Discuss Lab 3
- Team Assessment form

Notes:
- Team Assessment
    - Due by tomorrow 8am

- Lab 3
    - Acoustic: Dean, Jenn, Josh
    - VGA: Tejas, Leo, Maria

- Mechanical
    - In process

10/16/17

Goals:
- Discuss Lab 3

Notes:
- Lab 3
    - Due tomorrrow 

- Lab 4 due next week
    - Wireless communication
    
- Mechanical
    - keep the servo, have the servos on top

10/20/17

Goals:
- Discuss Lab 4
- Discuss future deadlines
- Discuss future goals for overall project?

Notes:
- Lab 4 VGA team needs to work on packet receiving not neccessarily wirelessly
- Need to determine final maze scheme and graphics (right now just solid colored square grid)
- Packets will consist of 1 byte (3 bits for x coordinate, 2 bits for the y coordinate, 3 for state)
- Wireless communication needs line of sight
- Brainstorm maze pictures for next meeting
- Ask TAs about pictures on FPGA
- Come up with team logo for wheels and engrave names in chassis
- Ask about laser 
- Create merch
- Find out how ordering things work

Action Items:
- Ask TAs questions above!!

10/27/17

Goals:
- Discuss Lab 4 (again)
- Discuss milestone 3
- Discuss future goals for overall project?

Notes:
- Lab 4 VGA team needs to work on packet receiving not neccessarily wirelessly
- Need to determine final maze scheme and graphics (right now just solid colored square grid)
- Packets will consist of 1 byte (3 bits for x coordinate, 2 bits for the y coordinate, 3 for state)
- Wireless communication needs line of sight
- Brainstorm maze pictures for next meeting
- Ask TAs about pictures on FPGA
- Come up with team logo for wheels and engrave names in chassis
- Ask about laser 
- Create merch
- Find out how ordering things work

Action Items:
- Ask TAs questions above!!

10/30/17

Goals:
- Discuss updates on Lab 4 FPGA Team
- Discuss milestone 3

Notes:
- Lab 4 FPGA - Minor problems remaining
- TAs don’t know the answer
- Team FPGA will go on 31st Oct, 2017 and solve their FPGA bugs
- DFS vs BFS
- Library for queues and stacks on Arduino or implement our own?
- Library exists for both
- Milestone 3 Deadline Nov 8 
- Milestone 4 Deadline Nov 21

Action Items:
- Phototransistor alternatives research from Lab 2
- Start working on Milestone 3 - individual research.
- Ask Kirstin
- Merge code

11/3/17

Goals:
- Discuss updates on Lab 4 FPGA Team
- Discuss milestone 3 and milestone 4

Notes:
- Lab 4 FPGA - Almost complete
- Need to improve turning
- MATLAB Simulation and Arduino code underway
- Milestone 3 Deadline Nov 8 
- Milestone 4 Deadline Nov 21

Action Items:
- Start working on the final version of the robot - wiring, calibration, improve turning etc.
- Finish MATLAB Simulation code and Arduino code by Tuesday, Nov 7
- Merge code

11/12/17

Goals:
- Discuss Milestone 4
- Team Assessment form

Notes:
- Team Assessment
    - Due by tomorrow 8am
    - Do it
    
- Milestone 4
    - Check line following sensors: Maria
    - Check treasure detection sensors: Dean
    - Arduino algorithm for mapping the maze: Tejas and Leandro
    - FPGA and Communication: Jennifer and Joshua
    
- Mechanical design in process

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