Social Event – CBU
6th of November — BBQ… afternoon Shelby Farms. Ben looking into booking a location.
Ben has tax ID info.
Speaker + tour from/of LSI.
General T-shirt idea: infographic for engineering dress code
Membership cost?
Part shop – should be up a running in 2 weeks
- Pre-order closes Thursday, 21st.
- Robot team parts to be added in for the order, if possible.
Funds – approx $1800 excluding Brother, $2000 from Brother
Anything cool?
- Teacher made it into top 10 listing on PopSci
- Slashdot – prize offered for interstellar travel planning
- Folding@home – ranked under 13000 of 190000 teams
Jan 15th & 22nd try to keep free – USFIRST, build day on campus?
Smart Grid meeting – house meters being replaced with cellular connection equipped systems to analyze and provide lower bills…
Power Society has two more meetings coming soon. One was TVA and Dave doesn’t remember the other. Should be on the IEEE Pro Calendar…
Résumé & Interview Workshop details…
Tasks:
- Testing
- Accelerometer – Dave and Angela
- IR Sensor – Ben and Garrett
- Order sensors
- Build test rigs
- Need money box – Ben will pick up today.
Goals:
- Detect Victim and Report
- Detect Hazard and Report
- 360° scan rig
- bot moves and record location
- push button that works – apart of the resistive screen?
- Speak(er)
Microcontrollers:
- Arduino
- PSoC from Cypress?
- Microchip?
- HC11
- HC12
- MC68SO8LL16
- http://tech-uofm.info/senior_project_parts.html