Team Eleven/Journal

Day 1

We spent most of today working on a kitbot (parts and instructions provided by the staff) so that the coders on our team could start code early on. We finished most of the assembly but are waiting on batteries and wires (held up by the weather) so that we can finish. We plan to have a working robot done by tomorrow evening.

We also spent a good bit of time trying to get the Maple board to work with our Microsoft-provided Samsung tablet. We ran into trouble getting drivers installed since Windows 8 requires that drivers be signed, and LeafLabs doesn't publish signed versions. The published workaround is to disable driver signature enforcement, which requires changing settings somewhere around the bootloader level. Unfortunately, none of the three USB keyboards we tried worked; it wasn't until we flashed a newer version of the BIOS that we were able to disable signature enforcement. Luckily, everything afterwards was a piece of cake.