TEAM MEETINGS LOG SHEET

Project Name: NASA

Team #: 13

Meeting #: 2

Date: 9/11/2008

Discussions:

• We finally received our project and began our discussions
• We were given copies of the “packet”
• At first the discussion started towards the initial shock at the difficulty of the project. And then we began trying to figure out what this could be asking. Also, we discussed whether we think that we will be asked to compete in the competition, if we need to follow competition rules, and if we don’t go to the competition will we have to have our robot perform as if it would be in the competition.
• We also discussed George’s conversation with Dr. Shih about the sponsor issues. Basically we figured Dr Shih will be our sponsor but NASA still has a chance to come in a take over and still might, if so our budget will increases and therefore the options will be increased.
• We also brainstormed and put together a list of questions to ask Dr. Shih and wrote them up to bring with us to the meeting that was also scheduled from 3pm on 9/12
• We discussed the three big design categories that will have to be gotten through. First is the computer: camera, transmission, and programming issues. Second are the mechanical issues: getting it to flap and hover and be under budget are two very big issues. Third is the miniaturization aspect: making it move, transmit, and be a kilo and small.
• We also talked about joining AIAA to get access to their materials and discounts for this project.
• We also discussed our small budget and which labs on campus might have the appropriate equipment we could use and to start asking now for access of information, these include the magnetics lab, the CAPS lab, Dr. Clark’s robotics lab, and the composites lab.

Deliverables:

List of questions to ask our sponsor

Comments/Suggestions:

This will be a very interesting project but one of the hardest possible

It will be a lot of work and hopefully the meeting with our sponsor will clear things up and we will be able to catch up to the other groups and get ahead of schedule.