2018-04-09 Meeting Minutes¶
- 3 extra people have signed up for volunteering.
- Budget
- We're currently under budget assuming they charge us £200
- Rules corrections
- Breaking changes (non-serious)
- Marker IDs are incorrect on the rules
game-specific.py
is correct, but the rules aren't. Solution: fix the rules- PR to fix this
- Incorrect scoring zone sizes in rule
- PR to fix this
- Flags -
- Send out email and deploy amendments
- Swag from ECS:
- Joyce says we should contact ECS marketing
- ACTION POINT Andy to email marketing
- Joyce also mentioned we can get food, but we've decided it's a bit too late to sort this so we won't.
- Joyce says we should contact ECS marketing
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Trophies have been ordered (yay).
- Should arrive 18th April or earlier.
- Looks like they're all the same size (we asked for the 1st to be bigger but whatever)
- May want to do this in person in future as there was a minor sizing error with the order (not enough to cancel though).
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Zone detection
- Part of
robotd
that looks through the USB drives mounted byusbmount
- Zone value is set from the contents of the first
zone
file found. - We can thus plug in a second usb drive to their robots
- Requires an accessible usb (see below)
- This is not an ideal solution, but is suitable for this years competition
- There is an alternative terrible plan, where we do nothing (i.e. tell them to hardcode their robot to tell them which zone they're in.)
- Part of
- Flags (and spare accessible USB port)
- Flags to be mounted on top of robots in a holder (straw?)
- Coloured for their corner
- Mount USB drive on flag with an extender to reach the USB hub
- ACTION POINT Andy to fix flags PR and ship them to teams.
- ACTION POINT Draft an email about flags
- We will need velcro ties to stop the extender getting caught on the robot if it is too long
- Ship orientation supporting only wall markers
- This was discussed on Sunday
- Only supporting wall markers removes the
Gimblegimbal lock issue and is known to work.
- Accomodation
- Too expensive to book hotels
- Tyler is possibly offering his sofa for someone
- airbnb seems like a viable option depending on pricing.
- Pricing we can reimburse depends on cost of the cube (an email has been sent about this)
- Build some wooden things