SRO Meeting agenda 2018-11-19¶
MiniBots¶
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Event for Winchester Girl Guides
- Past SB and SR team leader
- She wants us to do a Lego mindstorms activity with her Girl Guides
- 22nd November
- We need to decide on an activity and preparations
- Line following for older kids
- Build up to this, if not possible then not an issue
- She asked us how it's coming along during SR kickstart on Saturday, so we should send her a quick update message if we haven't done so
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People who are signed up - Dan, Kajetan, Henry, GojeDan, Jenny, (Nathan?)
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Shirts?
- Money required, however we are REALLY short on money at the moment.
- Design also Required
- Nathan's responsibility
- Competition?
SRO¶
- 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
- Booking a meeting room
- Consistently having issues with our rooms of choice being free
- Book a room for every Monday such that we have guaranteed space
- ACTION POINT: Dan to book a room each week
Smallpiece 2019¶
- Cube booked
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Awaiting ECS bugetery aproval and information
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Dan and Tyler met Reena this morning about budget
- Reena will try to get us more money
- UKSF Scholarship Intern
- New Academic assigned to us! Same person who ran the aero course this year
Misc¶
- G Suite
- Activities best person to contact
- Leaving SUSU soon
- A.Kendall@soton.ac.uk
- No email back from activities
- Find new person to take over this
- Activities best person to contact
Joyce¶
- Can fund some micro:bit robots
- We need to choose some and go talk to her
- Joyce was also interested in finding some money for the camera board development, so we should price up the development boards
- if we can get CM money from Joyce, then maybe see what else from the Smallpiece budget can be added to it since smallpiece budget is looking a bit low atm
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.
- Needs to be budgetted elsewhere due to small SP2019 budget
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Camera Module:
- Hardware spec has been finalised
- Awaiting funding for dev-kit
- ~ 150 for dev
- ~ 63 per finished board
- for 25 boards, that's ~ 1600
- Manufacture of New Kit:
- Cost around 3300 + PCBs + Cases
Smallpiece 2018 cleanup¶
- Volunteer payment needs completing by 30th November
- Confirmed that we have paid SUSU for SP18
- 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
Tasks¶
- Inventory Mk2
- New demo/dev bots
- Camera module software tests (pending on parts)