2016 12 14
USB memory stick input Pi3 with Wifi
Then SR's Power boards and motor boards.
Standard Webcam. Maybe pi cameras
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4GB MicroSD Cards, 15 for around £5 each = £75.
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Arduino should have a default implementation of controlling the Servos and the IO.
Things to do:
- Design the cases for the kits
- Optimise the PCBs for the Power and Motor boards.
- Auto mount USB sticks, just load python onto the USB sticks,
- Run python and output the error log
- Stop python that isn't mounted
- Decide on an OS Distro, we just assume it's linux, NO ROS
- Think of a name over christmas - Everyone Submit a name and we pick the best before new year.
- Vision code python interace - APRIL tags.
- Write the python for interfacing with the Motor & Power boards (fork from SR's code probably)
- Figure out the Servo control implementation, (we need to make sure the servos stay where they are if the robot is power cycled.)
- Get the power board and motor board working:
- Fork SR's power & motor board firmware.
- Fork SR's board firmware.
- Flash a power & motor board with firmware.
- Arduino/Servo Library
- Robot 'Simulator', some way of checking that the robots code won't syntax error before putting it in the robot.
- Bindings that output to the console, copy the binding of the robot library and just change them to output to console.
- Continuous Integration - Test server, etc....
- Wiki and Documentation
Things to do in the future: - Pi writes code to Arduino - Minimise Arduno damage by checking if the Arduino already has the right version on it. (checksums)
Who's doing what: - Alistair: - Python Vision bindings, maybe?? - Anton: - Arduino/Servo Library - Charlie: - Develop and add features to Robot simulator: See what's missing. Maybe look into making it 3D? - Steffan: - Auto mount USB sticks, load Python, etc - Andy - Decide what version of Linux - Python bindings if Alistair can't do it - Kier - Get the Power and motor board working - Flash the power and motor boards with SR's code - Andy Busse - ELEC?? Optimise the PCB.
Things to follow: - Be OS independent as possible - Students should be able to flash anything. - license: GPL - Document EVERYTHING - Comment your code. - Robot code not in zip, they just write python and copy it onto the USB stick.