Mentorship Meeting - March 3, 2016
Attended: Zach, Brandon, Brian, Kim, Garrett, Ryan, Christie
Fifth Week Tasks
- Students should be following their schedules
- Christie will send out spreadsheet to post LinkedIn profiles
- x96 parts purchase
Sixth 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
- Christie will let Kim know what to do for purchases
- 2 people in 296 team
- Maybe purchase Sparkfun items
- Team Black Hole and Rocket still need to purchase parts
Fablab Access
- Zach need to check on access to room for other members as well as training
- Zach still trying to contact Dr. Garmire for learning to use CNC mill
- UH Fablab page has tutorials on how to use the mill
- Will go through tutorials together
- Go over tutorials before spring break ends
2nd All Hands Meeting
- Saturday, March 5, in POST 214
- Will take pictures first
- Dress nicely
REIS-cess
- Encourage your students to go
- Good for team bonding
296 Project Updates
- Sensor modules
- Should test sensors during sensor modules
- Need to write code and push to GitHub
- Will provide values to verify sensor values
- Will use Apple board to get values in lab
- Bare Arduino
- Can use 5V and GND pins on Arduino as power supply to bare Arduino circuit
Updates for 196/296 Teams
- Project Badger
- Current sensor
- Figuring out how to verify AC current
- Have a voltage sensor too
- Kyle working on XBees and python
- Team Nova
- Working on XBee
- Made parts for Eagle
- Only have humidity sensor working
- Behind by a week
- Team Black Hole
- Had a meeting with Dr. Kuh
- Need to work on presentation
- Soldered XBee adapter board
- Still need to turn in papers for parts order
- Behind
- Team Asteroid
- Configured XBee
- Will test sending packets
- Have most of the sensors working except temperature
- Finished first draft of presentation and sent to Brian
- Behind by a week
- Team Rocket
- Working on XBees
- Worked on PDR presentation
- Need to work on charging circuit
- Behind by a week
- Team Quasar
- Finished testing sensors
- Sensors working
- Want them to write code
- Working on XBees
- Behind by a week
Mentoring Feedback
- Lab safety is important!
Authors
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Created by cobatake on 2016/03/03 22:55.