======All Hands Meeting- September 26, 2015====== **Attended: Dr. Kuh, Kenny, Jon, Jason, Christie, Garrett, Brian, Brandon, Kim, Tyrin, Tryston, Kaeo, Kristie, May, Scott, Ryan, Ernesto, Raydan, Raegan, Daisy, Jeremy, Keoni, Travis** =====Reminders===== * Calendar email responses * Calendar email responses will have the same deadline as emails- 24 hours! * You can use the "maybe" option * Make sure you are responding to your personal calendar- not the SCEL one * Open food on table * Please do not leave food or drinks open in the lab * We will get ants... * Using the water pot heater * Please empty excess water from the pot if you use it =====Proposal Presentation Comments===== * Put numbers on slides so it is easier to reference * Use less distracting pictures on slides * Hardware teams should include block diagrams * Less laughter * Do not stick your hands in your pockets or cover them with your sleeves * Find a good balance between text and pictures on slides- try to avoid slides with all text * Use bullet points =====Proposal Presentation Technical Notes===== * **Dragonfruit Design Team** * Focus on getting a working board * **Cranberry Design Team** * Make an outline of steps to complete when debugging Cranberry * **Apple Design Team** * Remote programming = wireless programming * Better to say implement data routing instead of "implement parent module data" * Split up tasks between members- programming and hardware * Can ask Cranberry and Dragonfruit teams for help * **Verification Team** * Unit testing of Apple board to ensure hardware is working properly * Think about how boards will work with software * **Firmware Team** * Difference between Git and GitHub * No SPI for XBee * Look at Apple repo * Libraries and how to get sensor readings * **XBee Team** * Collaborate with other teams * Create a test plan * Find range between two XBees in the real world * Allow for variances and find them *** Server Team** * Create a block diagram of the server translator * Collaborate with firmware team on Git/GitHub stuff *** Wind Sensor Team** * Reason for no moving parts on the wind sensor: * Facilities will not allow us to have moving parts on the roof * Moving parts can also break and do not last as long as stationary parts *** Forecasting Team** * Dr. Kuh's task: Least squares programming * UC Irvine machine learning repo and Kaggle * Regression least squares- did previously in MATLAB * Can do in R, MATLAB, Python * Everyone on the team must write it in the same language * Backend in R and display in iPython * Can also get data from Kenny