[srawn] SR(A)WN 2015 -- 16

[Tom Leese]

SR(A)WN 2015 — 16

This is the sixteenth issue of the Student Robotics (Almost) Weekly Newsletter, a (roughly) fortnightly newsletter which summarises the goings‐on across Student Robotics. Emboldened items are ones which we believe could do with extra hands. An absence of emboldening does not necessarily mean that everything is done.

Internal Updates

• The competition dates have been finalised and announced. It is happening on 25th and 26th April at Newbury Racecourse (set-up day on 24th).
• Tech Days in Southampton, Bristol, and Didcot/Oxford have happened.
• Various issues with SRComp have been fixed and the updated version is ready to be deployed.
• Some flags were created using facilities at Southampton for the Tech Days. Andy Barrett-Sprot and Freddie Nash are currently in the process of writing a manufacturing tutorial for them.
• Giorgos is working on getting the piezoelectric speaker in the power board controllable from user code.
• Murray is working on a kiosk system to allow webpages to quickly be displayed on kiosks around the venue (including arena displays, league tables, etc.) and easily changed remotely.
• Peter has (re?)surrected the idea of having properly defined contacts for each branch.
• Tom and others [are working on] a handbook for volunteers, focusing on mentoring but also covering development. Contact Tom off-list if you want to be involved.

Team Updates

• KDE have been given a replacement power board.
• RHY have dropped out.
• HRS's power board has been updated to the newer firmware to solve the current limit problem.

Thanks to Tom Leese and Murray Colpman for working on this issue. The previous issue can be found here.

[Peter Law]

Hi,

> ## Team Updates

>
> KDE have been given a replacement power board.

Wait what? When did that happen? They got the updated firmware (which
I suspect that HSO may also need), but I didn't think they were given
a replacement board.

Peter

[Tom Leese]

Hi Peter,

On 25/02/15 21:56, Peter Law wrote:
>> KDE have been given a replacement power board.
> Wait what? When did that happen? They got the updated firmware (which
> I suspect that HSO may also need), but I didn't think they were given
> a replacement board.

After some investigation, it would appear that
https://www.studentrobotics.org/trac/ticket/2861 was misread.

You are correct, they didn't get a replacement power board; only the
updated firmware.

Tom