Italics means action items not done last week.
Strike through means items that will not be checked this week, but will be checked in the future.
Take team member attendance in the team attendance tracker sheet in blog (Jerry)
Check availability for the meeting (1/21): All except Brandon and Justin

Agenda (7:00pm):

Logistics
-Pit area design (Amanda)
-Mentoring teams update (Samuel)
-Team blog notification mechanism (Brandon) (long term)

Non-essential Technical item status updates
-MathCAD (Samuel and Abhishek to try physics homework in the program)
-Vuforia SDK (Samuel to try the program and report status)
-ESD (Evan to continue research and report findings)
-PTC Windchill post status (Justin)
-Engineer connection update (Samuel)

Engineering notebook (Samuel)
-Review entries for last meeting including Executive Summary (all content should be in by 7pm)
-Overall:
-Hardware section (coordinate to avoid overwriting) :
-Software section:
-CAD section:

Game rule updates (Abhishek) (updates should make into Engineering Notebook)

Robot Design discussion (discussion points should make into Engineering Notebook, these should be mostly finalized)
-Overall robot update (Patrick)
-Autonomous strategy (Patrick/Brandon)
-Teleop strategy (Patrick)
-Software improvements (Brandon/Samuel)

Tournament preparation (1/28)
-Presentation (Coach)
-Driver training (Patrick)
-Plan scouting (Evan?)

Championship preparation (2/25)
-CAD (Coach)

Misc
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In meeting Action items (9:00pm)
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Agenda (10:30pm):
Action items:

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Action items:

Non-essential Technical item status updates:
-PTC Windchill post status (Justin)
-Engineer connection update (Samuel)
-Outreach/team connection (Samuel)
Championship preparation:
-ESD (Evan to continue research and report findings)
-Test Vuforia SDK(Samuel)
Engineering notebook:
-Write in lessons learned for hardware and software (Patrick and Brandon)
CAD
-Build solid model in system envelope (Abhishek)
-Simulate movement (graphing and values)(exercise 3) (Justin)
-Center of gravity on an incline (Jerry)
-Driving on field for autonomous (Justin)
Hardware improvements
-3d support print (ask brandon)
-Styrofoam phone holder (reduces vibration and effects of ESD)
-Make sturdier shooter
-Replace potential shooters
-Consider lighter linear lift
-Switch wheel orientation
-Faster chassis (with faster turns)
Software improvements
-Add “backup” autonomous opmodes where we don’t go for the beacons
-Tune the autonomous so we can get both beacons 100% of the time
-Implement Vuforia/OpenCV(Which Technical Difficulties uses) for the beacons
-Write extra safety code if possible to prevent robot usb disconnects
-Update control award sheet with improvements

Technicbots Meeting #19 – 1/21/16

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