Presentation

[Jeffrey Gough]

Yo,

As I'm sure you're all aware, we give the final presentation of Formica
either tomorrow 2pm or wednesday 9am. Hopefully we can put it off until
wendesday, but we must prepare for it being tomorrow.

By then we need to write a presentation, generate slides, and ideally
some sort of demo. Slides are best written together, so how about
meeting 9am tomorrow and bashing them out? Rob, Steve and (I guess) Jo
are out of action tonight, as they're coated in DSS and RF.

Once I've finished this bastard IRP poster, I'm going to start hacking
together some sort of demo for tomorrow. My rough plan is to take the
~14 (at least mostly-) working robot, put wheels on them, and build
some kind of rudimentary arena. Then I will familiarise myself with the
software situation and start hacking code. I'm going to try to get the
"infection" scenario working: robots are driving around randomly with
mood lights green, IR silent. Then we introduce one infected robot which
is sending out IR pings. When a robot receives a ping, it changes to a
red mood light and starts sending pings itself. Hopefully the red
infection will propagate through the population and look awesome.

This makes use of the already working IR ping. It requires development
of the PWM motor control (or at least a simple version) and some simple
control logic. Probably an all-nighter's worth, perhaps less.

I'm going to finish the poster/slides, eat dinner then start hacking, so
if anyone fancies joining me, I'd appreciate it. Probably starting
around 8pm. I guess Alexis is the only person who may be available.
Don't worry if not, I'll be having fun so won't resent you all!

Bear in mind that the final demonstration deadline is in a couple of
weeks, so if we don't have a demo by tomorrow/thurs it's not a disaster.
It is the final presentation, though, worth 15%, and as we all know,
awesome demo = awesome presentation.

Pain,
j

[Alexis Johnson]

I should be available to help late this evening, need to finish slides and
dss.

On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:14:40 +0100, Jeffrey Gough <jdg...@soton.ac.uk>
wrote:

[Jeffrey Gough]

Cool. Still bleeding into IRP, so may be later than 8 ;)

Alexis Johnson wrote:
>
> I should be available to help late this evening, need to finish slides
> and dss.
>
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:14:40 +0100, Jeffrey Gough <jdg...@soton.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>

[Robert Spanton]

Jeffrey Gough wrote:
> This makes use of the already working IR ping. It requires development
> of the PWM motor control (or at least a simple version) and some simple
> control logic. Probably an all-nighter's worth, perhaps less.

I reckon this will take only about half an hour of hacking, and I can implement
this tonight. The frames just need to contain a version number, and a few bits
about which LEDs need to be on. The motor PWM is straight-forward -- it just
needs to use the watchdog timer in its timer mode, which is also fine.

We've all go to get together to do a practice of the presentation as well
tomorrow morning.

> Bear in mind that the final demonstration deadline is in a couple of
> weeks, so if we don't have a demo by tomorrow/thurs it's not a disaster.
> It is the final presentation, though, worth 15%, and as we all know,
> awesome demo = awesome presentation.

We need to decide on how the presentation is divided.

R