Present:

• Jonathan Mash
• Mike Studli
• Liliane Barbour

Agenda

• Blueprint paper - task assignment

Discussion:

• Liliane is in charge of contacting Dr. Hashtrudi-Zaad to set-up a meeting time
• All team members are to finalize their course schedule in order to plan arranged meeting times
• Task assignments were arranged to optimize the blueprint writting procedure
• Control board and motor control board interfacing standard was discussed and agreed upon

Meeting Minutes - Nov 14, 2008

Sensors

• Putting blinders on sensors
  • Problem that it might not detect close objects.
• Need more cure for sensors to each have their own area.
• Need to test thermal sensor → see if can be used to differentiate between objects
• Will order more PIRs later in case some get damaged

Motor

• How much force on gears? Don’t want to break
• If use gears can use a smaller stepper motor
• Algorithm: ramp start and stop
• Spline curve → so can start acceleration with zero slope at beginning and zero slope at end
  • Spline toolbox in MATLAB

Electrical

• Heat sinks
• Do we need an enclosure?
• Test on bigger TVs

Microcontroller

• Need a lot of analog ports → 8?
• Serial output

Ordering plan

• Buy pre-fab controller, and purchase PING, etc.
• When see how much money left, then buy parts for custom controller and PIR sensors
• PERF board
• Need to put PCB boards in the budget

What we need now

• Excel table with minimum costs in a budget
• Possible other budget with custom controller, etc.

For next week

• Budget
• Test thermal sensors
• Test volume
  • Look for evaluation board for controller
  • Ease of programming
  • Power supply
  • memory

Meeting Minutes - Nov 20, 2008

Meeting Minutes - October 30th, 2008

Present:

• Dr. Hastrudi-Zaad
• Jonathan Mash
• Mike Studli
• Liliane Barbour

Agenda

• Proposal paper

Discussion:

• Reviewed proposal report

• Looked at web-site

• Clean front end of web-site

• Have some password protection option

Project:

• Check devices but we may need budget approval first
• Contact: Steve Humphrey
• Items and testing devices
• Use volt meter and oscilloscope to test
• Particular bench set-up if we need special equipment
• Research proximity sensors
• Discussed next meeting date
• * field trip next Thursday so the following Thursday November 13th

Deliverables for the next meeting

• Deliverables for November 13th Meeting:
• Look at sensors
• Crude plan of what we want to do
• Present all options (uC, fpga, etc)
• Up-dated budget
• Be ready to start ordering