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Minutes of Meeting Group “WTFLOL” Held on Thursday 29th March 2007 at the Leaf Lab Mech Eng Undercroft Starting at 1510 Reasons for meeting: 1. To work on the ‘Robo Sumo’ project. Present: All members. Apologies: None. Absent: None. Agendas/ Issues: Other - Issued deadline for ‘Robo Sumo’ Thursday week. - Discuss in terms of physics strategy of ‘lifting’ opponent. - Preliminary plan to finish construction of robot by the weekend. - Programming still ‘under construction’. Building - Designing the final outcome of the Sumo Robot for next week’s competition. – Mike, Daniel, Alan - Commencement of building prototype Lego robot for ‘Robo Sumo’ - Assembly of wheels. Complete. Starting the construction of the body. - Location and function of light sensors on robot. - Proposal of “spring back” top in case it flips. - “Caged” the wheel to prevent case of entanglement with opponent in the ring. - Strategising ‘attacks’ and ‘defence’ tactics that could be deployed in relation to the design and construction of the robot.ie attacks from the side etc. Programming - Reprogramming to debugging the program to suit and manage the essential tasks necessary for the robot – Charles - Bug in the NQC ‘tasks’. - Bug fixed - New bug found. - Testing program on brick. - Motors failed at test attempt 3 - Motors operational but at slow speed. Date Of Next Meeting: Saturday 31st April 2007 at 1200 outside on the CSE lawn. Meeting Closed at …1604