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Mentorship Meeting - February 18, 2016
Attended: Zach, Brandon, Brian, Kim, Garrett, Ryan, Christie, Tryston
Fourth Week Tasks
- Finished Eagle tutorials by 2/15
- Students should be following their schedules
- GitHub repositories on the wiki
- Christie will send out spreadsheet to post LinkedIn profiles
- x96 parts purchase
Fifth Week (Next Week) Tasks
- Students should be following their schedules
- Usual: progress, accomplishments, issues, goals for next week
Progress Sheet
- Update progress sheet by Fridays at 11:59 pm
Funding
- Make sure students signed up for Ron Ho Fund
- Have students purchase a pyranometer, leveling plate and Arduino if there is extra money
- Have college purchase
- Christie sent out email
- Christie will let Kim know what to do for purchases
- 2 people in 296 team
- Maybe purchase Arduinos and USB cables
Fablab Access
- Zach is the main contact for this
- Will have lab code
- Will be trained on how to use equipment
- Others will then need approval from him after learning to use the equipment
- Mentors and Apple all got training
Reminders/Updates
- Hours on holidays need to be made up
- Boxes with Arudino parts on shelves
- Use libraries for Eagle
- Just need to make their own part for the humidity sensor
- Get access to Github repos for lab
- Find libraries for sensors
Updates for 196/296 Teams
- Project Badger
- Finished Gantt chart
- List of parts- will finalize today
- Start on current sensor this week or next week
- Team Nova
- Finished Eagle tutorials
- Working on sensors and microprocessor
- Team Black Hole
- Finished Eagle tutorials
- Went over microprocessor module
- Will do bare Arduino
- Team Asteroid
- Almost finished with Eagle tutorials
- Gordon still needs to finish
- Will do parts order
- Started bare Arduino
- Team Rocket
- Finished Eagle tutorials
- Working on microprocessor
- Issues programming
- Working on charging circuit today
- Team Quasar
- Finished Eagle tutorial
- Garrett reviewed files for them
- Bare Arduino
- On track with Gantt chart
- Jaimie working on XBee
- Kenny working on sensors
- Kyaw working on charging circuit
Mentoring Feedback
- Issue with microprocessor
- Have ATmega328 but need ATmega328P
- Need to change a couple lines in a text file