Team Three/Journal

Day 1

Bowler came in with basic red-ball-tracking openCV code that slowed to an unusable crawl (<1 fps) as soon as we tried it on the acer netbook. Need to optimize. At any rate, everything on the software end is all configured now.

Lesman came in with a sexy CAD design, did most of the pegbot assembling, and is working on custom Arduino firmware.

Jorge did most of the wiring and soldering, only blowing out one voltage regulator in the process. (Thanks to this incident, the contest admins now have the correct spec sheet uploaded to the wiki.)

We got through two checkoffs on the first day, so we're making good time so far.

Day 2

Bowler: got vision code running in C++, detecting balls. Wrapped C++ vision code to run in python.

Jorge: Worked on/read up on mapping. Wired up 2 additional IR sensors and began working on wall-following

Lesman: Worked on robot CAD. We've got a general picture of what the robot will look like, need to various mounting and assembly details.

Generally discussed game strategy and robot design. We're largely "done" checkoff 3, and are hoping to hit 4 and 5 and wall following tomorrow.

Day 3

Jorge got safety trained and wrote a wall follower like a boss

Bowler got vision code working and calibrating like a boss

Lesman wrote a PID class, Utils class and Ballfollower like a boss

Team discussed software design and iterated on CAD model like executive board

Day 4

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