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Minutes of Meeting Group “WTFLOL” Held on Sunday 25th March 2007 at the Leaf Lab Mech Eng Undercroft Starting at 1315 Reasons for meeting: 1. To begin designing and programming a basic structure of the sumo robot . Present: Daniel, Charles, Samintha, Mike Absent: Paul, Alan, Ravi, Annie Agenda: To begin getting a relative design together to program the robot and testing what maneuvers work better than the others. What we did: •

Wheels- Begin to attach the wheels to test the program being written - Designed the wheels so that the distance between the body of the robot and its wheels are less to avoid bumping unnecessarily. - Discussed and attached different wheels onto the design to get a better visual to see what works better than others and why. • Had trouble getting the connection between the program in the computer and getting it through to the robot • Program- trying to create a program that will seek and detect an object and exert force pushing it away (forward) - Updated firmware - After much deliberation, the program worked. There was the lack of a big book to test the program but it managed to push a big block of Lego - Sensor fails to detect the block after repetitive trials in running the program - Was debugging and rewriting • Upon discussion from previous meeting, Mike had created a ramp design prior, which he brought. This was remade by the use of our legos. • Our battery died. Therefore, for the time being, switched Mikes robots batteries with ours. Date Of Next Meeting: Monday 26th May 2007 at 1500 in spoons lab Meeting Closed at 1615