PVIT Robotics

WiFi is Up and Running

Yesterday we made a breakthrough in the project by getting the arduino to communicate with the Wireless Router, which then communicates to another device (in this case, it was a laptop). Our final step would be to program the following cars to receive the data. Today will be our final meeting. We are going to finalize the project because it will be shipped off to MIT tomorrow. Good work everyone and we’ll see you (or your parents) at the meeting on Saturday at 10:00!

MIT Trip in Sixteen Days!

Just a friendly reminder that we have sixteen days until we leave for MIT. We also need to accomodate time to ship our equipment to MIT, so we need to work as hard as we can on our project. We’re planning more meetings and will let you know when we plan to meet. Good luck on finals!

Team Shirts

Our shirts have arrived! We have a style for men and a style for women, and each shirt comes in a variety of sizes. Come and pick up your shirt as soon as you can. We will be taking a second, more official, team photo as soon as everyone has picked up their shirt.

Team Meeting - May 9

On Saturday, we had a meeting to plan out the time frame for the next month leading up to the trip to MIT in June. We have five weeks left. The first three weeks will be devoted to building, the next week for testing, and the week school gets out for a final crunch. The week following, we will ship the finished project to MIT, and simply make sure our presentation is ready.

We also discussed some aspects of the presentation, i.e. videos, poster boards, and brochures.

Adding Videos and Pictures to the Site

It’s great that everyone has been taking pictures and video. All that we need now is to have them inserted into the site. Read below to find out how.

Pictures:

Have your pictures saved on your computer. Create a new post and write about what your first picture is of. Above the text box, there are media buttons. Scroll the mouse over these and you’ll discover what they’re for. Just click on these, and after you’ve followed the steps, you will have the pictures inserted into the post.

Videos:

Upload your video to YouTube, then copy the HTML code on the youtube page. Click the box that says HTML (In the right hand corner when you create a post) and copy the code into the page wherever you would like it.

Thanks for taking pictures and videos and keep up the good work!

Photos/ videos

Take a look at our videos and photos that we have so far of our progress.

Videos -> http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64EA1219CB815B86

Photos -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fleetingmomentsofbeauty/sets/72157616739260847/

Engineering Notebook Submissions

Please hand in your submissions for the engineering notebook by the end of the month. An e-mail was sent out, but if you have any questions, ask Zoe Marshall.

Update - April 5

Today we accomplished various things.

First, we have successfully connected one of the cars to Labview. The program, while being only a simple driving program, will be useful in our future exploration of Labview. We will continue to power one car with the Arduino controller and one car with Labview so we can look at the efficiency of each of the methods.

We are still attempting to connect an EeePC to the Arduino controller.

One last goal is to start connecting the CMUcam to the Arduino controller, as the BASIC Stamp doesn’t have large enough processing capability.

Please note that we are meeting on Saturday at 9:00 AM in the PVIT room in lieu of our usual Sunday Meeting.

Have a happy Spring Break!

Quick update

Yesterday a lot was accomplished. We got the Arduino to receive signals from the remote controller although it’s not perfect it’s a step towards the ultimate goal. Thanks everyone who brought along their parents for the meeting to give us a general estimate of how many people will be taking the plane to MIT. I hope everyone will continue to work on this project and make it all come together. Don’t forget to keep posting.

- Kevin

Parent Meeting Tomorrow, 3/29

This is a reminder that there will be a parent meeting at 3:00 tomorrow in the PVIT room. The meeting will discuss the MIT trip.