[Gghc-discuss] Duinolab, robots, and other topics from yesterday's GGHC meeting

[Erich Heine]

Hi all,

Yesterday was our group's weekly lunch meeting. Here are the notes:

* Discussed Jonathan's Duinolab project (please reference the blog post he
sent to this list earlier in the week).
  + Geeked out on options for it
  + discussed various educational use cases for it

* Discussed robot progress:
  + progress is somewhat minimal at the moment -- basically it is a supply
chain thing for this. The robot itself is not hard to make, but
 speccing parts, then ordering them and waiting on shipping, doing stuff
then figuring out the next step's parts will take too long to iterate
through a full design.
  + The project should still be done, but in a 28-day window we probably
can't reasonably finish

* Proposal: Switch the project for GGHC from robots to the Duinolab. This
project is actually completable without death-march style work by the due
date of projects (5/3).

PLEASE NOTE: I would like feedback to this list if you object of this
direction switch, and please provide it in the next day or so.  I know I
have already talked to most of you face-to-face about this, and no one
raised any objections yet, but it is a day later and everyone has had time
to reflect.


So, w.r.t. the Duino lab, here are some things we have identified as tasks:

Planning:
1. Decide what components need to be included in the "hard" board.
2. Decide what components are needed in the peices kits
3. Decide use cases and example projects for the duinolab

Implementing:
1. Board layout
2. Unified software framework -- make all parts easy to deal with in code.
3. Start making example projects

Educating
1. Get involved with schools on using this.
2. Get some written documentation on the projects done

I will be in the hackerspace tonight after work (6ish) until about 8 for
playing with stuff on this. If anyone wants to join in or discuss this or
otherwise participate, please show up!

Regards,
Erich
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