Meeting Breakdown: Mithril Day 4
Mithril: Day 4
Date: 10.02.2018
Goals
Continue/Start Brainstorming
Final Decision on team name
Send out round 2 google form
Decide what needs to be ordered
What Happened:
We did a lot of brainstorming and came up with some cool ideas.
Arm is on a turning “platform” like a tank has
Divided track that sorts minerals by color onto an arm.
Spinning wheels to suck in the minerals.
Raised robot base so we can get over the minerals on the floor.
Use a color sensor hooked to a small servo that flicks down an arm.
Decided on the name “Mithril” for our 8190 team.
What Didn’t Happen:
We only had two team member here today so we didn’t get any input from the other team members about their ideas.
We still have a few options for the method to
Summary
Overall, it was a successful meeting, we got a lot of ideas and we decided on the best way to collect the minerals. We have a good baseline and we have a general idea of what we want the robot to look like and how we think it should function. Hopefully, next meeting more members will be there to get a good idea of there ideas. If we have some good discussions tomorrow, we may begin building the drivetrain. We have a lot of complex ways to do the tasks so we may split up our building team into sections and a few people work on driveebase while the other works on arm/spiral scoop and so on.
Next Time
Get more members opinions.
Decide on the way to put the minerals into the rover.
Add color sensors to the list of parts to buy
Talk about splitting up robot into sections and dividing the building process.