Overview of Status of Analysis, Design, Fabrication, Tests, etc.
Electronics housing in 4th iteration of construction. Machined and bonding, will be ready to test this week.
Considering vertical thruster; water proofing piston proving difficult.
Accomplishments from Previous Week
Successfully calibrated laser range finder prototype (Daniel)
Built and tested acrylic boxes (Jacob, Stuart)
Goals for Next Week (list names after each item). Use specific and measurable objectives.
Complete feature tracking tutorials (Daniel)
Learn how range finder code works (Grant, Jacob)
Improve laser dot detection (Grant)
Have a floating prototype filled with electronics (Jacob, Grant, Justin)
Figure out if ABC is still worth looking at. Time to move onto vertical thruster(s)? (Stuart)
Have pressure sensor and IMU configured with the Raspi (Grant, Justin)
Sponsor Comments from Last Meeting and Actions Taken to Address these Comments (indicate date of comments and if via email or in person)
Reconsider feasibility of ABC
Move towards trajectory mapping/moasaicing
Either finish electronics housing and confirm performance or source housing ASAP
Instructor Comments from Last Meeting and Actions Taken to Address these Comments (indicate date of comments and if via email or in person)
Comments from Other Students in the Class (indicate date of comments and if via email or in person)
Risks and Areas of Concern
Is the ABC still feasible?
Now that Stuart is a father, we're not sure he's going to be showing up so often.
Resources or Information Required but not Available
How white balancing an image works.
Schedule
Working prototype by end of week (05/14)
Update Gantt chart.
Budget (list amount spent and amount remaining)
Progress on Report and Webpage
Removed default instructional text from webpages
Updated front page
Completed first draft of report