Team One/Journal
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01/06
Today we assembled the "kitbot." Evan worked on CAD, mostly on the drivetrain, but it is very far from being finished. We need to decide on a manipulator. Hopefully tomorrow we will be able to drive the robot around with arrival of some missing components.
01/07
Andrei: playing with the tablet. Problems with Windows installing Maple drivers, decided to go with Ubuntu.
Evan: Planned.
01/08
Andrei: Installed Ubuntu, made the kitbot work. Started figuring out OpenCV basics.
Evan: Started designing.
01/09
Andrei: Problems with OpenCV on the tablet. "make" freezes the tablet. Had to reinstall Ubuntu. Seems to work now. Vision got seems to be in a good shape
Evan: Had major discussion on strategy and plans. Continued designing.
01/10
Andrei: Tablet works with OpenCV. Made the kitbot follow the wall.
Evan: Modified our mechanical strategy significantly to better match our game plan. Lots to redesign..
01/11
Andrei: Decided to go hardcore. Made a simulator of a real world. Now don't really need a kitbot for a lot of stuff.
Evan: Started designing ball collection implementation - sweeper type collector.
01/12
Andrei: Started implementing the state machine. Takes a long time...
Evan: Continued designing ball collector.
01/13
Andrei: Not too much. Some Wall Following stuff.
Evan: Made prototype Archimedes screw.
01/14
Evan: Tried to sort out the rest of the general geometry of the robot. ~85% designed
01/15
Evan: Added on board ball manipulation hardware for after the balls are collected.
01/16
Evan: Trying to sort out mating details, etc.
