Thursday 2/5 Scrum Notes

1. What did I do today?
2. What will I do tomorrow?
3. What’s standing in my way?

Laser Cutter (Stanton)

• Today
  • Fixed the laser cutter so things don’t spontaneously burst into flames
  • Cleaned the lens
  • Adjusted some laser power settings

Contact Switches (David)

• Today
  • Working on cutting parts out of polycarbonate
  • Mounts at the bottom, in with the drive train
• Planning
  • Want to be done tomorrow

Four-link (Jane & Korn)

• Today
  • Worked on duplicating the original four-link
  • Have 3 of 4 sides set up
  • Ready for motor mounting
  • Mr. Wells & Mr. Cunningham got the motor mount plates set last night, plan to attach them tonight
• Planning
  • Need to make the barrel-grabbing hand

Elevator (Donald)

• Today
  • Have unbolted the conveyor belt
  • Drilling holes to lift the base up about an inch and a half — will be done today
  • Angle of belt may be adjusted

Wiring/Programming (Roche, Wu)

• Today
  • Got limit switches to light LEDs will also signalling RoboRIO — not sure if we can pull more than one LED off the signal line without losing the signal
  • Planning for limit switches at each tote level
  • Thinking that the drivetrain will stay on the CAN bus (which is slow), but everything else will be under PWM control — and we should have enough ports

Media (Jane)

• Today
  • Sammy is wearing a GoPro — gathering footage for the Dean’s List video
• Planning
  • Please shoot video on your phones as well — in dire need of footage