all_hands_meetings:march_5_2016

All Hands Meeting- March 5, 2016

  • Communication
    • Email
      • Please remember to check your email daily
      • Emails should be responded to within 24 hours
      • T his includes Google Calendar invites!
    • Slack
      • Please remember to check Slack daily
      • Send out fast, mass messages using this application
      • Can download the app on your phone to get notifications!
  • Lab Hours
    • Mandatory to attend lab hours on the schedule
      • If you cannot make your hours or are changing your hours, please email the lab manager and your team
      • Please notify as early as possible
    • Lab hours
      • Crowding in the room especially on Thursday afternoon
      • Will send out survey for additional lab hours
  • Wiki Reminders/Updates
    • SSL certificate (no more warnings!)
    • Check if these are on your wiki
      • Post your presentations as a PDF on your page
      • Keep meeting minutes up to date
      • Block diagrams
    • Try to keep your team’s page clean - slow improvements
    • Consider contributing to the training page?
  • Parts Orders
    • Orders were only placed this past week for everything ordered through our lab
      • Sorry! We’re revising the procedures.
    • Packages should be arriving early next week
    • Next parts order will be due Friday, 3/11, at 11:59 pm
      • If you have any ideas or suggestions, please let us know
  • REIS-cess
    • Saturday, March 26, 10:00-1:00
    • Manoa Valley District Park
    • $10 for lunch
    • Come to hang out with your fellow lab members while participating in sports activities
    • Fill out form to accept or decline event by March 9
  • Deadlines to Remember
    • Weatherbox deployment deadline
      • Spring Break- March 19
      • TWO WEEKS LEFT!!!
    • 296 Weatherbox Project deadline
      • Week of April 11 at the latest
      • Five weeks left
      • Shadow teams after project is finished
        • Start thinking of which teams you are interested in shadowing!
  • Before starting presentations
    • We’re all here to learn
      • If you’re confused, it’s okay.
      • Ask questions, talk to other teams
      • Technical/Professional/Social
    • Outside support and opinions
      • Very positive
      • Wiki - “Great experience for students”
      • Alumni mentors
  • Spring break- Week of 3/21/2016: 10 weatherboxes deployed
  • Week of 4/11/2016: 296 weatherbox projects due
  • Get ahead on work and account for debug time and unforeseen setbacks
  • Make sure all notes fit on one slide
  • Keep track of parts needed in the lab
  • Making four boards
  • Keep track of parts needed in the lab
  • Making two boards
  • Keep track of parts needed in the lab
  • Making five boards
  • Using libraries for I2C
  • Dragonfruit sensor readings work
  • Cranberry sensor readings not working
  • Readings to standardize if correct values are being received
  • ADC pins
  • Traffic affects XBee range
  • XBee Pro S2B sold out
  • Will look into network configuration
  • Environment XBee is in affects whether packet is received or not
  • Using Teensy
  • Mentorship from Daisy and Andy
  • Will call for support for current anemometer
    • May order another one
  • May order more microphones
    • Bidirectional vs Unidirectional
  • Exponential Recursive Least Squares
  • Normalization with zener angle
  • Thinking of changing GUIs
  • Going to use current sensor breakout board from Adafruit with PCB
  • Filled out rubrics with comments
  • Remember to get ahead NOW
  • Collaborations with others is encouraged

Authors

Contributing authors:

cobatake

Created by cobatake on 2016/03/05 22:03.

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