Team members:
All except Evan, Amanda and Brandon
Agenda:
- Action items check
- GIGAWOT camp activities proposal
- Boys and Girls Club Demo preparation
- RCCG Church Demo preparation
- Youth Robotics Fair preparation
- activity preparation document review
- PTC CAD modeling QA
- Youth robotics fair activity leads individual discussions
- Ongoing work check:
- Engineering Notebook Cover Design (monthly)
- Prezi presentation Design (monthly)
- AutoDesk capability investigation (monthly)
- Outreach activity leads status check (monthly)
- Chassis study project video (monthly)
- Chassis Study Work Engineering Notebook entry feedback (weekly)
- Chassis Study Work issue discussions (weekly)
Action Items: (Blue means completed, Black means ongoing and Red means uncompleted)
General
- Summer Ongoing work:
- Audrey: Engineering Notebook Cover design
- Amanda: prezi presentation as visual aid for in pit judging interview
- Justin: study the AutoDesk capability in rendering the simulation and automation with PTC model
- Max: create the video for community wide chassis study project
Outreach
- GIGAWOT curriculum design
- Melody/Audrey/Amanda: think about activity attractive to the girls which may involve IoT and mobile app (MIT AppInventor)
- Samuel: collect detailed information on a possible Augmented Reality demo and development session
- Boys and Girls Club STEM Project Open House event preparation (due Friday midnight)
- Brandon: create google slide document with the template for the presentation, add the link to the outreach preparation document
- Brandon: make sure all team member and parent’s availability are confirmed and transportation for each items on the pack list is confirmed (especially the large items)
- Everyone: create your slides (2-3) of your topics as listed in the outreach preparation document (agreed from last meeting) and in the same order as listed in the document
- Evan: complete the talking points on relic arm mechanism (in outreach preparation document, I have done the other parts in the doc already)
- Evan/Austin: make sure the robots are in ready state (relic arm needs to be repaired)
- RCCG Church Demo event preparation
- Jerry: create the event on outreach tab of team google sheet
- Jerry: create the preparation document for the event and put the link into the outreach tab (including the items that we talked about last meeting)
- Youth Robotics Fair preparation
- Actions needed for the preparation
- Everyone:
- make your preparation document sharable so others can view and minimally editable by me
- update your preparation document based on latest template doc (where I added session length and participants per session)
- Evan/Abhishek: FTC Robot scrimmage and driving experiences
- follow the template preparation doc to include everything needed
- Scrimmage portion to be added in
- Abhishek/Amanda: Myoelectric Prosthetic Arm Experience
- Packlist needs to be split into multiple rows with each row only having one item (add electrode to be purchased too)
- Technical points need to be extensively expanded so other team member could explain
- Add diagrams for the explanation (which we will make into laminated sheets)
- Add the calibration steps for the arm
- Add the overall steps for a session
- Justin/Austin: Robo Sumo wrestling
- follow the template preparation doc to include everything needed
- 4/14 meeting: Joint discussions on the update based on information from the other two events
- Austin/Justin: Line follower contest
- follow the template preparation doc to include everything needed
- 4/14 meeting: Joint discussions on the update based on information from the other two events
- Samuel/Anthony: Roomba virtual challenge
- Add in visual aids for technical points explanation (flowchart, python sample code etc)
- 4/14 meeting: setup on Anthony’s laptop; get Anthony familiar with the entire activity flow
- Jerry/Max: 3D mouse cue challenge
- Locate the 3D mouse otherwise the activity needs to be replaced
- Any reference link for understanding more of 3D mouse and puzzle
- 4/28 meeting: setup on Max’s laptop; get Max familiar with the entire activity flow
- Brandon/Ray: ipad RVW programming challenge
- No permission to view the doc to provide the feedback
- 4/14 meeting: setup on Ray’s ipad; get Ray familiar with the entire activity flow
- Melody: Rubber Band Race Car
- 4/14 meeting: Coach review and approve
- Derek: Spartan robot
- follow the template preparation doc to include everything needed
- Add in visual aids for technical points explanation (IR sensor etc)
- 4/14 meeting: install Arduino IDE so you can program the Robot too and can show/explain the code to the participants if asked; take home the Robot to practice
- Max/Anthony: EV3 maze
- Max to follow the template preparation doc to include everything needed
- Anthony to create an Android app using MIT app inventor to drive the robot with tilting of the device (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/lego-%C2%AE-ev3-tilt-drive.html)
- Ray: build a simple EV3 chassis for next experiment with MIT app inventor
- Audrey: Scratch app with kinetics
- 4/14 meeting: experience the demo so you can start writing out the preparation doc
- Everyone:
- Template preparation doc:
- Actions needed for the preparation
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zvNBxvuDauW41iuFWuTe3m9F876qcTl50GHMpKH1byY/edit?usp=sharing
Technical
- Melody/Evan: install PTC 4.0 on your computer and download kits of parts models for the kits assigned to you and get familiar with the parts
- Everyone(Abhishek): log your entries to the April engineering notebook; for this week, you will log anything your learnt and resolved in PTC while working on your chassis model and a picture of the latest chassis model in the engineering notebook
- Brandon: initial draft of the executive summary of the chassis study project in April engineering notebook
- Max: Finish initial draft of your plan on shooting the video for the chassis study project (Evan and I will review with you during next meeting for feedback)
8565 Pre-season Team Meeting #2 – 4/7/2018