Thursday, April 12, 2012

Task List and This Weekend

I reformatted the departmental task list last night, so if you guys can start filling it in, that would be great. I hope to come up with a more streamlined solution to keeping track of what everyone is doing soon, but I think this will take some time.

Peripheral Electronics:
  • Progress with motor driver and motor research

Data/Logic Electronics:
  • Micro-controller evaluation progress
Mechanical

  • Chassis and overall design progress
Software
  • Git repository population progress

Chris and I hope to put a logging mechanism into effect for the group so that anything that we find in research, design, or discover can be written down and used later for Micromouse projects later on through the years and for ourselves when we have questions about why we did something the way we did. Dr. Villareal suggested us to use permanently bounded notebooks (like lab notebooks) so that we could also date what we wrote in the case we wanted to patent anything we developed.

Let me know what you guys think about this suggestion or if you have any other suggestions of your own in the comments.

Don't forget that I would like to have the task list stuff mostly started by the end of the week. By doing this, it will help me to make a project timeline so that we can better coordinate what we do and will help us move more efficiently.

1 comment:

  1. This is an excellent spreadsheet, I really think this will help us all stay organized together.

    Also I plan on buying some bounded graph paper notebooks this week. They will allows us to individually keep track of our progress and record daily/weekly thoughts/ideas/designs/etc.

    Thanks & Gig 'em

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