Meeting Minutes 2009.02.26

Discussing Building

• Examining wiper motor:
  • Hall effect strategies - Where to put the magnets?
    • shaft extension? no room in case
    • other end? no housing - $50 for enclosed
  • Optical?
    • still have space issue
  • interrupters

• H-Bridges

• PCB design maybe. Make some to sell, maybe.

• wheels
  • Most typical wheels have bearings
  • Need wheels without bearings

• What housing?
  • Plywood
    • strength/thickness puts wheel too far out
    • maybe we could use a bracket
  • Oil drum - mounting motors on round stuff is hard.
  • 8020 - aluminum framing materials

Discussing finishing up the Orbs

• get an event to set a hard deadline
• what needs to get finished
  • human interface
  • algorithmic

Plan a performance to push for:

• Robogames?
• Niladri will head up
• logistics: need large flat space
  • Might be hard to get people out of the building.
  • Might be hard to do in the building because of space.
• Timing: June

Things to play with next time

• optical sensor
• hall effect
• gear counter