Minutes

2006-01-25

I'm rather poor at taking notes. The discussion covered more than this. But hopefully I caught enough of the important stuff. - Allen

Attending:

Toby, Phil, Alan, Allen

Recording Secretary:

Cheerleading:

Toby: We need to get moving rather than get bogged down. Assume we are still in proof-of-concept stage and everything we do in this stage may be disposable. Right now we don't need to be worrying about future issues such as: boat configuration, power budget, CPU selection.

(General agreement)

Viewing the 2006-01-01 plan in the light of the "get moving"objective yields:

Stage 1.0 - proof of concept:

• Use Burr's boat.
• Use Dave's Lantronic sensors.
• Sensors provide feedback to allow a person to drive the boat.
• Wing #1 angle - ship relative
• Wing #2 angle - ship relative
• Wind angle - ship relative
• Not yet
• compass
• wind and water speed

Stage 1.0 - Add more sensors:

• compass
• wind and water speed
• others as necessary
• Undefined:
  Add an on-boat CPU if that is the easiest way to add sensors. If the sensors don't need a smart CPU, don't add one.

Action Items:

• Dave O'Gorman: Lantronic sensors for wing and wind angle.
  It is believed these talk SNMP over 802.11.
• Alan: SNMP client code to interpret sensors and pass to GUI.
• Allen: GUI

Summary:

• Action items are intended to be quick and easy.
• The code that Alan and Allen write is intended to be disposable.
• architecture diagram for stage 1.0