Nov 21 2015 All Hands
Kenny's Comments
XBee
Questions:
- What walls did you guys use? What kind of materials?
- 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 is the difference between the XBee X3B and Xbee 900?
- 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:
- 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?
- 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).
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Created by kluong on 2015/11/21 20:48.