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+====== Nov 21 2015 All Hands ======
 ====== Kenny's Comments ======
-* Tables are too small to read (reformat these)
+===== XBee =====
 Questions:
-* What walls did you guys use? What kind of materials?
+  * What walls did you guys use? What kind of materials?
-* Do you guys have pictures of the locations you guys used for your testing?
+  * Do you guys have pictures of the locations you guys used for your testing?
-* What are your deliverables for the end of the semester
+  * What are your deliverables for the end of the semester
-* What is the difference between the XBee X3B and Xbee 900?
+  * What is the difference between the XBee X3B and Xbee 900?
-* Is the information about the problems you had with metal documented on the wiki?
+  * Is the information about the problems you had with metal documented on the wiki?
+  * What are the pros/cons of using the XBee 900?
 Comments:
-* You guys might be able to store data on the computer, and then offloading it to the computer afterwards
+  * It would probably better to continue to use the laptops today
-* For the next meeting, think about how your team falls into place in the lab. What is the purpose of your team?
+  * For the next meeting, think about how your team falls into place in the lab. What is the purpose of your team?
-* Good, mentioned things that other teams could use
+  * Good, mentioned things that other teams could use
+  * Tables are too small to read (reformat these)
+===== Dragonfruit =====
+Questions:
+  * What are your deliverables for the end of the semester?
+  * Other problems and concerns for the semester?
+  * Did you guys write down your comments about the power budget? If not, you should guys should write it down somewhere. The wiki is a good place.
+  * What sensors do you have that are 3v that need to communicate to the 5v microcontroller
+Comments:
+  * Make sure you test the caps in series (to achieve the same result)
+  * Make summerizations about each of your spreadsheets and also present that next time
+  * (It was good that you guys showed the tables)
+  * Receiving 3v signals on a 5v micro-controller is fine for some applications - depends on the application.
+===== Cranberry =====
+Questions:
+  * Can you share eagle parts easily?
+  * Have you guys been writing down a change log?
+Comments:
+  * Good summary of the power budget!
+  * The slide about inter-team collaboration is good. Thanks for including that.
+  * Via Dr. Kuh (write some best practices down for other people)
+Ideas:
+  * We might want to have a place on the wiki that documents best practices
+  * Maybe a place to put parts for everyone also
+===== Apple =====
+Questions:
+  * What are your deliverables for the end of the semester?
+  * How long do you expect the box to last without sun?
+  * What is the size of your housing box?
+  * Is Andy's thesis and any other relevant papers on the wiki?
+  * What other teams are you communicating with?
+Comments:
+  * Block diagram instead of circuit so that people can follow
+  * Good job splitting the presentation between multiple people
+===== Verification Board =====
+Questions:
+  * Not tackling power? Can you explain this a little more?
+  * What are your final deliverables for the semester?
+  * You mentioned an anemometer?
+  * Is the checklist on the wiki somewhere?
+  * Are you sure of your team's place is now? Can you write it down?
+Comments:
+  * Block diagram should be more detailed
+  * Same thing as before - showing the schematic might be hard to follow if you're just explaining it.
+  * You should communicate with the other teams to know what you're doing.
+  * At the end of the semester, communicate with apple to merge your documentation (you mentioned this).
+  * Thanks for documenting the microcontroller... we should setup a review date for the documentation sometime.
+  * The other teams should be along enough to ask more questions. If not, ask questions from the advisors/leads.
+===== Firmware =====
+Questions:
+  * What are your final deliverables?
+  * Do you have plans to add documentation to modify the firmware for someone else?
+  * Are you guys using versioning?
+Comments:
+  * Images of code might be hard to read for the audience. Suggest you summarize them in text.. or use a block diagram
+  * Specific code segments are implementations are okay.
+  * Might think of a way next semester to generate documentation.
+===== Server =====
+Questions:
+  * Manual packing - what does that mean?
+  * What are you final deliverables for the end of the semester?
+Comments:
+  * Images of code might be hard for the audience to read. Suggest you summarize them in text.. or use  block diagram with function headers.
+  * Make sure that you have a block diagram of where your system is?
+  * Need more details in the CDR - you should have almost all of your system implementation by this point.
+===== Wind Sensor =====
+Questions:
+  * How are you guys accounting for direction?
+  *
+Comments:
+  * Maybe talk to the firmware team to talk about implementation details
+  * Should explain how direction is working next time for the final presentations
+  * Good technical material.
+====== Forecasting Team ======
+Questions:
+  * Final deliverables?
+  * What are you guys attempting to do in terms of forecasting?
+Comments:
+  * Could integrate more into the other teams next semester; comments regarding what type of data you guys need.
+  * Real time data processing - could have the other teams implement it later on.
+====== Overall ======
+  * We need to anticipate to have more questions
+  * Need a way to measure the current consumption for a device - this way we can accurately measure the power profile for an XBee. This could be a project that we do next semester with someone since it would be a good tool for our lab. Possibly look if there is already a tool that can do this.
+  * We need a logic analyzer for our lab? Debug logic signals...
+  * Continue development of the power budget template.
+  * Maybe we should include something in the requirements for the CDR regarding communication with other teams.. maybe this should be in the other presentations as well.
+  * Comments about putting circuit diagrams in presentations - they're hard to follow.
+  * This semester's recruits: "Cohort #1". We could do something for the next semesters as well, and group people like that.
+  * Guidelines regarding putting code in a powerpoint -> shouldn't screenshot code
+  * Need to have a section for guidelines in the project management page about if people fall behind for something
+  * These presentations should have schedule.
+  * We need to define these presentations a little more for students, or at least tell them they should watch out for certain things. Audience, presentation type (technical, non-technical, etc).
+  * Might need to split the final presentation into two sessions (they're meant to be longer).
+  * The way you present matters in these kinds of presentations - word choice matters. Don't say we're pretty sure. (Need to get the rest of the comments from Jon).