SRO Meeting agenda 2018-10-08¶
Freshers¶
- We have new people
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Activity Day
- Retro
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New Mailing List
- sourcebots.org/signup
- sourcebots.slack.com
SRO Rebranding¶
- Discussion of redefining SourceBots to be an event rather than an organisation.
- SourceBots and MiniBots are "brands" of SRO
- SourceBots for older, MiniBots for younger?
- Classify activities by brand, so that there isn't duplication of branding in materials.
- Purchase of a domain name
- Contains all of MB and SB and links to other websites
- Potential Domains:
- sro.bot
- srobot.org
- Final Logo Decisions, cleanup svg files and commit to git
- ask nathan to finish them
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xcVI1lb5OPnbxy5zW63FOzwBvodWJ0-B
- Minibots - friendly logo + Forest Green-ish #0B821A
- SourceBots - Diode + Purple #4A0B9F
- SRO - Robot Arm #BC8C41
- Progress?
Misc¶
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G Suite
- Henry - Any progress?
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Smallpeice meeting with Reena
- Dan, Kajetan and Tyler met with Reena, Geoff Merritt and Heather this morning
- Funding
- Review Anton's ARM email
New Projects¶
- RUB Bots
- Demo bot in a RUB
- Tudor MK2
- Make them collapsable
- ~Roughly £15-20 worth of parts
- https://www.screwfix.com/p/joint-connector-bolts-bzp-m6-x-35mm-50-pack/87106
- https://www.screwfix.com/p/insert-nuts-type-d-m6-x-13mm-50-pack/59937
- chissel to modify wood
- could also get some hinges to make them fold down rather than disasemble.
- Camera Module
- Pi Compute Module
- USB B connector
- Busybox / embedded linux
- Camera module
- Manufacture of New Kit
- Power board improvements
- Servo Boards
- Smallpeice increase to 80
- Inventory
Smallpiece 2018 cleanup¶
- SUSU have been paid
- Certificates need sending
- Needs sending
- Missing orders (where are they?)
- Wheel hubs (backorder) - Arrived?
- Drill charger (wrong one)
- RUB trolley (no idea)
- ACTION POINT Kajetan and Dan will chase Shaun Ford
- Find Alistair's pen
- Probably can't find that now
- Buy a new one?
- £55.81
- Fix for next year, add items to the personal property list
Meeting 8th October 2018 minutes¶
We have new people. Dan explained the brands of our society/how we are structured.
Activity day retro¶
- Pros:
- It was awesome, mindstorms pain to work with.
MBEDs were good
- It was awesome, mindstorms pain to work with.
We have a new mailing list.
Rebranding¶
- Dan mentioned that the logos are inconsistent
- Action point: Nathan to fix are logos!
Henry¶
G suite, free 'free' for educational purposes: - (cut-out features) - we need to prove our educational status
Registered charity - We can register under SUSU? - Non-governmental (we are) - Action point: Henry to investigate
Smallpeice meeting¶
- Increase size to 80
- Provisional dates in slack, we have provisional description.
- Action point: Confirm it.
New kits¶
- We currently have 9 full kits
- We need to make more
- Tyler will be developing modifications
- Action point: Speak to him
- Servos: Investigate costings to fix current draw problem
Camera Module¶
- Tyler got Pi to reply to them about the camera module
- Action point: Tyler to continue to investigate
- Pi compute
Collapsible robots¶
Are current demo bots take up too much room, we want to develop a system where we can collapse.
Misc¶
We paid SUSU! :) Missing orders.