Meeting Notes 10/12/12

Meeting Type: Group Meeting

Attending:

Advisor(s): None

Members: Sondra, Darryl, Alex

Excused: Greg (Egland Visit with AIAA)

Action Items

1. Look over the grant proposal by 7 pm tonight
2. Kyle: Send out the grant proposal to advisors
3. Look at the project manager - Kyle
4. Alex will look into vision software
5. Darryl: Set up Arduino motor driver CMS
6. Sondra: Get computer talking to Arduino
7. Alex will get order list done this weekend

Meeting Topics

• Ordering
• Better way to keep track of tasks (emails are hard to track)
• Next week’s goals

Important Notes

• Grant proposal draft done, edit it next week
• People will be missing from meetings for the next few weeks

Transcript (Notes)

• Ordering
  • Make a shopping cart and print it out
    • We made an Excel sheet
      • Arduinos, wires, and C batteries plus a pack to mount them in
      • Voltage regulators - they can buy these with the FSU credit card
      • Orders under $40 they’ll just buy with the credit card
• Solution to problem with organizing communication
  • Google Doc
  • Mavenlink - free project manager, unlimited users, unlimited projects, Google suppt,
    • Google “project manager that works with google”
  • Use Robosub in the subject of all robosub emails
• Tracking our purchases
  • There is a google doc
    • Track on order vs completed
• ECE tasks
  • How to charge batteries we currently have
  • Bug Ryan about IMU
  • Test all sensors to see how they work
  • Sondra and Darryl: Control a thruster off an Arduino and the Arduino off a PC -
  • Alex will start working on OpenCV
• ME tasks
  • Have a fully assembled first draft of the aluminum frame
  • Draft weight and pressure calculations by Wednesday
  • They will try to do the buoyancy ones too
• Getting things moving in the water
  • Want a place to mount a motor and an Arduino on the prototype
  • Be awesome if prototype would do more than just spin around
• Grant proposal
  • Have our draft looked over ASAP - Dr. Frank and Dr. Harvey most likely to respond quickly
    • Make your changes by 7pm today
    • Kyle will send it out to our advisors
  • Goal is to send out letter to all potential sponsors
• People will be missing from meetings for the next few weeks

ECE

• Darryl’s almost done with the motor driver
• We talked a bit about some programming design
• We’ll meet Monday at 1 to put together the Arduino thing

Group Notes

Not available.