SRO Meeting agenda 2018-12-26

MiniBots

• Event for Winchester Girl Guides
  • Past SB and SR team leader
  • We did a Lego mindstorms activity with her Girl Guides
  • 22^nd November
  • Event Feedback report
  • People who are signed up - Dan, Kajetan, Henry, GojeDan, Jenny
  • It went really well, we'll be asked back there in the future.

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

• Cupboard storage

  • Work out how much stuff we have
  • Plan for wooden pannels

Smallpiece 2019

• Cube booked
• ECS Buget updates
• Runbook
• Meeting with new academic lead

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

Joyce

• Can fund some micro:bit robots
  • Purchased
• Joyce was also interested in finding some money for the camera board development, so we should price up the development boards
  • Purchased
• 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

• 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

• Camera Module:

  • Hardware spec has been finalised
  • Awaiting arival of 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 30^th 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)