Today's agenda is as follows: we'll do a quick review of the system architecture as we'll be using for testing in upcoming weeks, before the folks who have volunteered to work on drive control, arm control, and base-station code each give us a short report on what they've accomplished, what needs to be done, and how we can help. After that, we'll break into smaller groups and do what needs to be done.
Hello, everyone!
As we've done the previous two Saturdays, we'll be having the URC Control Systems meeting today at 3-4pm in MEB 238.
I can't write much right now since I need to leave for campus in about ... zero minutes (tip: living on- or near campus is probably super-convenient -- but then, I wouldn't know), but today we'll be going over the basic configuration of our systems for the December deadline, and organize into small groups and work on the several goals:
- Arm control implementation
- Drive control implementation, and
- Internal communications protocol data-structures definitions
Today's agenda is fairly straightforward: I'll talk a little bit about effective mindsets to use when (learning about) programming before moving into some more concrete things like:
- binary numbers (and why you care),
- data structures,
- serial and I2C communication, and
- pulse-width-modulation (PWM) output