SRO Meeting agenda 2018-10-22¶
Freshers¶
- New Mailing List
- sourcebots.org/signup
- sourcebots.slack.com
- Memes are to be put at the bottom of the agenda please.
MiniBots¶
- We got contacted by a teacher from BPV
- Past SB and SR team leader
- She wants us to do a Lego mindstorms activity with her Girl Guides
- Dates: ""Ideal dates for us would be 1st Nov, 15th Nov, 22nd Nov or 6th Dec If you can do something this term.""
- Dan needs to put out a doodle poll. We should decide Wednesday ACTION POINT FOR TONIGHT
- Also Robogals post Kier has the post, ACTION POINT FOR TONIGHT
SRO Rebranding¶
- Purchase of a domain name
- Contains all of MB and SB and links to other websites
- Potential Domains:
- sro.bot
- We can't register this for a website. It has to be a bot (currently)
- srobot.org
- roboticsoutreach.soton.ac.uk
- ACTION POINT, EMAIL ISOLUTIONS AGAIN
- sro.bot
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Final Logo Decisions, cleanup svg files and commit to git
- Dan put out a poll. Look at it when I get there¶
Smallpiece budget URGENT¶
- Board pricing
- Cupboard inventory
- Pricing finding
- Review equipment list
Misc¶
- G Suite
- Henry - Any progress?
- Activities best person to contact
- Leaving SUSU soon
- A.Kendall@soton.ac.uk
Dan found new robots¶
- Wait until Dan is there.
- I'm very excited about them.
Code Club¶
- https://www.codeclub.org.uk/
- Met at Careers Fair
- Interested in collaborating with us
New Projects¶
- RUB Bots:
- Demo bot in a RUB
- Tudor MK2:
- Make them collapsible
- ~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.
- Possibly use Smallpeice budget for this
- ACTION POINT Ask Tyler
- Name wise, go forward one historical period
- Stuart
- Camera Module:
- Can we finalise a hardware spec today to start getting parts ordered?
- contribute on https://hackmd.io/rHYHCUilSVK__udwBiWbwQ?view
- Seems familiar? https://youtu.be/4ahdOqe5qBk?t=282
- We should contact them
- Possible sponsorship / assistance with vision
- Particularly interested in their individual factory calibration
- Pi Compute Module
- USB B connector
- Busybox / embedded linux
- Camera module
- https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=224309
- https://www.waveshare.com/product/imx219-d160.htm
- Requirements, return info on every marker in view:
- ID
- Orientation
- Co-ordinates
- Funding out of Smallpeice budget, needed ASAP
- Can we finalise a hardware spec today to start getting parts ordered?
- Manufacture of New Kit:
- Power board improvements
- Servo Boards
- Smallpeice increase to 80.
- BBC Micro Bit:
- https://microbit.org/
- https://www.rapidonline.com/brands/microbit
- Starter Kit at £12.50
- Programmed like mbeds
- Scratch-like interface
- Lots of websites that have robot chassis for Micro Bit
- Fifth of the price of Mbed (!!!)
- Insane amount of documentation
- Inventory
- Dan wrote a checksum algorithm after reading many German maths papers.
Smallpiece 2018 cleanup¶
- Missing orders (where are they?)
- Drill charger (wrong one)
- Order another one + batteries once budget confirmed
- RUB trolley (no idea)
- ACTION POINT Kajetan and Dan will chase Shaun Ford
- Drill charger (wrong one)
- 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
- Smallpeice yet to pay volunteers still
- ACTION POINT Andy will email Mr Smallpeice
- Have SUSU been paid?
- SUSU sent invoice to ECS
- Apparently done, another invoice sent
- When Finance aren't lazy, they will be paid
Bank Stuff¶
- Robogals money to get transferred to new empty SRO account ACTION POINT for Jenny
Tasks¶
- Inventory Mk2
- New demo/dev bots
- Camera module pricing evaluation/software tests
- Smallpeice 2019 Budget