SRO Meeting agenda 2018-11-05¶
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 has put out a doodle poll. We should decide tonight. Decided on 22nd
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We need to decide on an activity and preparations @Jenny
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People who are signed up - Dan, Kayeatun, Hanri, GojeDan™, Jenny, (Nathan?)
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Shirts?
- Monies required
- Design also Required
- Competition?
SRO Rebranding¶
- Purchase of a domain name
- Contains all of MB and SB and links to other websites
- Potential Domains:
- roboticsoutreach.soton.ac.uk
- sro.soton.ac.uk
- ACTION POINT, ANDY TO SEND DAN TEMPLATE
- We now need to sort out colours ACTION POINT for Nathan
Smallpiece 2019¶
- Budget Completed
- Budget summaries created
- Cube booked
- Awaiting ECS bugetery aproval and information
Student Robotics¶
- Kickstart this weekend
- Kit in cupbaord till then
- About 2.5/3 stacks of rubs should be cleared during/post kickstart
- Box of SB chargers now at Tylers flat due to packing error
- ACTION POINT: Before and after photo of cupboard post-Kickstart
Misc¶
- G Suite
- Henry - Any progress?
- Activities best person to contact
- Leaving SUSU soon
- A.Kendall@soton.ac.uk
- No email back from activities
Joyce¶
Joyce is lovely. She wants to give us lots of money.
- Can definitely fund some micro:bit robots
- We need to choose some and go talk to her
- ** DO TONIGHT **
- Is Joyce still here tonight?
- If not can't really go talk to her tonight, abort mission.
- If yes, DO TONIGHT
- ** this ** doesn't make things bold, this makes things bold.
- Is Joyce still here tonight?
- Joyce was also interested in finding some money for the camera board development, so we should price up the development boards - preliminary costings for camera module boards at this link
New Projects¶
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Tudors:
- 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
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Camera Module:
- Hardware spec has been finalised
- contribute here
- Having links called "here" is really bad for people using screen readers. Don't.
- contribute here
- Funding out of Smallpeice budget, needed ASAP
- Hardware spec has been finalised
- Manufacture of New Kit:
- Cost around £3300 + PCBs + Cases
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
- Budgeted into 2019 costs
- 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
- Andy has now emailed Smallpeice, waiting on a response on whether its possible to pay volunteers.
- Feedback for 2018
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-CfTfJxBFNCp3JSJI4-8KDWvYDFQ447uYTU194OfuNo/edit#gid=0
- Place personal thoughts on reasons for feedback in sheet
Bank Stuff¶
- Robogals money to get transferred to new empty SRO account
- Ordering kit from SUSU grant applications
Hills Road¶
Hills are running a competition for Year 9 to 11 in April.
We should help with Kit Dev.
Swiss¶
There is a microphone that has arrived at Kajetan's house at high speed from switzerland.
Tasks¶
- Inventory Mk2
- New demo/dev bots
- Camera module software tests (pending on parts)