Micro Mouse Robotics Team

Nov 1

A WEEK IN REVIEW, THE WEEK OF OCT. 26th – NOV. 1st. FROM A PRESIDENT’S POINT OF VIEW.

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Hello all MicroMousers.

This week we finished several demo boards. We should be done by Friday, Nov. 6th, along with a flight plan of the workshop. The new members have been working their asses off with the soldering jobs. Even though a lot of them are having trouble with it, everyone is being very helpful and attempting to move forward. Soldering PCB boards isn’t a skill you can accomplish in a day; for example it took me around a year’s worth of work to be able to solder decently. But remember, working on electronics is supposed to be fun! Sometimes, we might spell SUCCESS as S-T-R-E-S-S-F-U-L, but, we can not give up. Long hours in the office, putting time into your work will show later in your career as an engineering major. Other than working on hand soldering our workshop demos (pictures will be up soon), we have started our discussion on our rover. In order to develop a robot that mimics a simpler version of the Roomba, we have debated about the issues at hand: sensors, actuators, chassis, micro-controller, but, the most important thing is what we want it to do. Without a purpose for the robot, we cannot move forward in any direction.

In next weeks meeting, we will have a discussion and minimal workshop time. We will be discussing about the current project at hand, and in order to understand how we should build the robot, we will find out what we want it to do. Then, we can start developing a body for the robot and researching what we should use. I cannot emphasize how important researching is! Without research we will not learn anything, in a world where everything comes easy for us, we must learn of our own accord. With the search engines and all of the resources available to us, it makes me uneasy how people would rather ask someone to figure out the problem for them. Have some pride, figure out the problem yourself! You WILL learn more than you need to, but that knowledge is something invaluable in your life. Well, enough of me preaching to the choir. I will end my rant with this quote.

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Alva Edison

Well, back to work everyone…
Bryant Trinh

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Oct 23

CSULB Library. Robotic Book System

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Hey all, recently went on a tour of the CSULB library. They should be having another private tour soon, I’ll send the email out! Here are videos and pictures! Enjoy!!!

-Bryant

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Oct 20

Meteor Showers Tuesday Night and Some Info

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Everyone please arrive on time this week from 2:00PM – 2:30PM for a 10 minute small debriefing for every team so I can better access where all the teams are at. Please speak with your team members on when you want to come so you can all make my life easier. I should be on campus at around 12:00PM on Friday. The actual meeting and discussion will start at 3:00PM.

This at this week’s meeting we will be discussing

Rover Project(AVR team)
Demo Project(Due Date: 2 weeks)
Boe-Bot Team(Personal Project)

Since we are getting a recent flux of members, we need to organize ourselves a little better.

Don’t forget that our room is open all week if you wish to work on projects during your spare time. Just let an officer know. If you cannot make it to a meeting, be sure to email us the club or call an member to let someone know. It would be a let down to your teammates.

This weeks meeting will be on Friday, Oct. 23rd at 2:30PM.

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Oct 6

Meetings Every Friday! Even on days off!

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Meeting this friday, October 9th, 2009 at 2:00PM! We will be working on the Atmega168. Please come by for our workshop!

-Bryant Trinh

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Sep 1

Fall09

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Hey guys! Its Fall 2009 already and classes are starting. AESB and SWE recently got their own offices and moved out of EN-124. Now IEEE and EKN has moved in to join us. Let me welcome them and lets enjoy one another’s presence. There is a lot planned this semester, first off there is Welcome Week coming up. We have a table reserved there next week. Please come up and visit us. Make sure to come by and visit us at EN-124 whenever you can.

-Bryant

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Mar 10

Finally Got Access!

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Hey guys!

I finally got access to the micromouse website. Our next meeting is on March 19th, and I hope to see more new people. I have a bunch of stuff for people to do. If you cannot make the meetings, please come visit us at EN4-124(behind ECS next to IEEE) or email us.

-Bryant Trinh

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Oct 29