2009:Electrical Main 2.3.09

February 3rd, 2009

Start time: 6:40 pm

End time: 9pm

Members present: Michael H, Sean K, Rika L, Collin S, Crystal V, Oranges, Apples

Updates and Conclusions:

-Jeff says we will only need one Digital Side car!! So we'll be sacrificing one conveyor belt sensor.

-We decided that we want to use hinges to support the electrical board cover. We're going to have two on one side, along with velcro on the other end so we can just rip it off :D

     --Crystal's not applying for pitcrew, but she can still worry about them! :D

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Burlone's Marching Orders:

-Interface with Mechanical for Sensor mounts

   -->Limit Switches ---> Done-ish

   -->Banner Sensor ---> Need adjustablility (for the time being until we finalize)

   -->Encoder for top spinner (Shooter) --> Precise mounting

   -->Mouse ---> Talk to Josh Gannon

   -->Omron ---> Need Adjustment for the time being until we finalize (again)

-Interface with mechanical about where the board gets mounted on the hopper (again) --the lower, the better

-Talk to programming tonight (Off time to cut up wires / transfer components)

-Measure wire lengths in inventor / route in inventor

-Make protective cover for electrical board-- make sure it fits in inventor!

    --How do we want to mount this?

    --Should we velcro it? Bolt? Think about it; if you're in pitcrew, and you have velcro, you have to fight a little to tear it off because accessing. If you bolt it-- you have to unbolt it one by one, which will take longer. Crystal suggested hinging it maybe, that wouldn't be a bad idea, so it's a flipping access that's easy. Oranges thinks we should velcro and screw a few just for field safety.

-Work on Mice

-Weight (again) and give to Mr. Kanzler

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Ideas for making the board pretty:

-Drill holes in the lexan and wire below

     (Dave oranges - - - Since the electrical board is transparent, you'll still see all the wires underneath, so I'm not sure wiring underneath is much of an advantage, and we'd have to be careful the wires don't get into the moving mechanical parts.  Maybe just neatly route wires horizontally and vertically on the top of the board and use a lot of zip-ties (ty-wraps) to keep them in place in nice bundles ???)

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Mouse Inventory

Dell 2 button: 28  <<< this is the style we'll use since we have a lot of them

Logitech 3 button: 1

Logitech 2 button with scroll: 1

Black dell 2 button: 2

Gateway 2 button with scroll: 1

Dell 2 button with scroll: 1

Microsoft 2 buttone with scroll: 1

General Electric with scroll: 1

2 Button Compaq: 1

37 TOTAL

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Tasks still to do

1.  wire up one of the new mice to be sure it provides the electrical outputs we want.

2.  give a mouse to Mechanical so they can figure out how to mount it.

3.  incorporate protective cover for side electrical board into main robot model in Inventor.

4.  fabricate the folded lexan protective cover for the side electrical board.

5.  start making some wires for the robot where we can (maybe just crimp connector on one end and estimate lemgth?)

6.  test all of the mice of the style we're using to be sure we choose working ones!!!