Attendees

1. Austin Patel

2. Jackson Paddock

3. Kristofer PISTER

4. David Burnett

5. Fil Maksimovic

6. Joshua Alexander

7. Martina Balbi

8. Razanne Abu-Aisheh

9. Said Alvarado-Marin

10. Thomas Watteyne

Minutes

• Austin Patel

  • McCoy v2 testing: all seems to work except for 3-wire bus

    • on McCoy v2 3-wire bus worked

    • maybe changes to Teensy 3WB code?

  • big boards, looked at voltage source (all fine), but when connecting VBAT to SCuM, strange current draws

  • IMU (ICM20948) we are using is out of stock everywhere

  • preparing ICRA presentation, presented on 03 Jun 2021 (live, on Zoom)

• Jackson Paddock

  • graduated!

• Joshua Alexander

  • will be back in Berkeley in August

• David Burnett

• Razanne Abu-Aisheh

  • working on relay placement for a robot swarm

  • central controller decides when a robot should stop

• Said Alvarado-Marin

  • designed a breakout board for the nRF52833

  • sent to JLC PCB, should arrive by 01 Jun 2021

• Martina Balbi

  • released first firmware for the DotBot

  • BLE connectivity to a mobile phone!

• Thomas Watteyne

  • 3 engineers joining Inria to work on robotics, interested in getting exposure to what we are doing

• Kristofer PISTER

  • instrumenting robots with SCuM+LH2 for external positioning feedback