8565 TechnicBots Meeting #10 – 11/18/2017

Team members:

Setup and Cleanup for next meeting: (names mean penalty duty)

Engineering Notebook (due Thursday night midnight)

• Overall:
• Hardware:
• Software:
• CAD:

Agenda:

• Jacket design confirmation
• Texas Library Association Conference and the TLA Innovation Lab 4/3-4/6, 2018
• Mesquite team mentoring availability (12/9)
• Plano Library Demo availability and preparation / Waiver form
• FLL Scrimmage preparations
• Action item check (including Engineering Notebook)
• Rule update check (Jerry)
• Review scouting sheet and google form
• Review Inspiration Book entries / outreach hours logging
• Go over presentation- qualifier on 12/16 including the team brochure review
• Any error and debugging tips to be shared from last week
• Thanksgiving week goal and work schedule planning
• Tune teleop
• Tune autonomous
• Sign off last Engineering Notebook entry with Managers and Coach before leaving the meeting

Action Items: (Blue means completed, Black means ongoing and Red means uncompleted)

• General
  • Everyone: Based on the discussion of the presentation plan, fill in the pictures for your portion in the prezi so we can view all together in the next meeting (even if you don’t have a finalized picture, put some placeholders there so we can feel the layout and pace)
    • https://prezi.com/view/W9XIfEd7ClN72kWcrv1S/
  • Everyone: Write your presentation script
  • Samuel: prepare the first draft of team brochure for review next team meeting
  • Samuel: finalize inspiration book for presentation
    • Brandon: Write upcoming FLL scrimmage
    • Evan: Write upcoming ACP demo
  • Samuel: document the trouble shooting resource for wireless connection per the email
  • Everyone: review Amanda’s team scouting interview sheet to provide feedback
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0SUnsSro3GiqvRmHU_4HbFuKbZcGVdQbEx8t5w82w8/edit
  • Jerry: check rule updates
• Software
  • Brandon/Jerry: update Engineering notebook for details on software design/coding/debugging:
  • Brandon: complete jewel ball scoring code and verify crypto picture recognition
  • Brandon: update team repository to FTC SDK 3.5 (please do it for 12810 too)
  • Jerry: document the two different programs testing the two mechanisms and the USB cable issue (what error with USB cable)
  • Jerry: start working on pitcrew program
  • Jerry: document the Java class diagram
  • Brandon/Jerry: Send out availability for Thanksgiving break
• CAD
  • Justin: continue CAD modeling and document in the engineering notebook
  • Justin: review 12810 3D print models and provide guidance
• Hardware
  • Evan/Abhishek: improving mechanism (now we have programs for both mechanism)
  • Evan: Finish most building over thanksgiving
  • Abhishek: Keep building new design
  • Amanda: document your thoughts on relic design (there is no documentation on it at all since this task was assigned a few weeks ago)
  • Evan/Abhishek: Send out availability for Thanksgiving break