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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.
  • 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).
  • Zone detection

    • Part of robotd that looks through the USB drives mounted by usbmount
    • 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.)
  • 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 Gimble gimbal 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