Meeting Tonight!

Attention Team Members!

Don't forget that there is a meeting tonight at 7pm. Rumors of free HKN pizza later on at 8pm have been circulating .

Chris will be meeting everyone at the beginning of the meeting in room 111B to help facilitate ideas on what needs to be done today. Some suggestions of mine are:

• Discuss more about parts
• Short range IR sensors were found last meeting which should suit our needs -  [Short Range Sharp IR sensors: (GP2D120XJ00F) http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8959]
• Check the blog at tamu-micromouse.blogspot.com for more parts suggestions
• Join the blog (Become followers)
• Work more on soldering
• *Note - there is a PicAxe board that was soldered so that the LED's are too close to the board. If you believe you have mad de-soldering skills, go ahead and detach the LED's, otherwise leave the board for me to take care of later this week or Monday. If you are to apply much more heat to the board, the pad may lift and the board will have to be modified in order to provide the same functions
• Research info on Arduino platform
• find how to implement something like software threads. Basically, the robot must both be able to handle low level functions such as motor control and sensor reading as well as computing the maze-solving algorithm at the same time. The PicAxe uses two separate pic controllers to complete these two functions. It would be preferable to allow our design to use only one micro-controller to handle both tasks though a call needs to be made back to each task frequently.
• Join the Blog <- I know this is the second time (we really need people to follow this)

Also, have one individual send either me (Brock Martin @ bamartin125@gmail.com) or Chris (chrisjagielski@gmail.com) an email with a short summary afterward containing some info about what was accomplished at the meeting.

Good luck guys!

Brock