SR(A)WN

Student Robotics (Almost) Weekly Newsletter

2014-11-26 : SR2015 Issue 11

SR(A)WN — 11 (Tom's Birthday) (Happy birthday!)

This is the eleventh issue of the Student Robotics (Almost) Weekly Newsletter, a (roughly) fortnightly newsletter which summarises the goings-on across SR. If you have feedback or think we've missed something, feel free to reply to this thread. Emboldened items are ones which we believe could do with extra hands. An absence of emboldening does not necessarily mean that everything is done.

• The Trac wiki was cleaned and brought up to date at a recent Southampton doing.
• Python tools port is still happening and testing the new tools would be very helpful.
• Revision 2 of the rules has been shipped.
• Tech days have been announced for both Southampton and Bristol.
• srweb has been updated to use Smarty 3.
• Alistair put together a script to watch Gerrit and update trac tickets when they get fixed in commits following standard fix message convention.
• Fritter is now live and running in production. Written by Peter, it enables a large number of emails to be sent out without appearing as spam.
• An improved Child Protection policy has been outlined and desperately requires feedback.
• The towel-throws mechanism is still under discussion on the srobo-game list. No resolution is forthcoming, more input would be appreciated.
• The steering committee will be meeting this December to discuss Student Robotics becoming a charity.
• The assembly of the Kit is now documented in the Docs and an assembly video.
• There is now a tool to generate Trac tickets for yearly recurring tasks. This has now been used to generate the Trac tickets for the 2015 competition.
• We are starting to collect mentoring times for all the teams, which are documented on the Teams page on Trac.

Team Updates:

• QMC broke a power board.
• There are 18 teams who have set their team status on the website.
• CCR are looking at using an I²C motor controller.

Thanks to Tom Leese, Giorgos Karatziolas, Freddie Nash, lilafisch, and Alistair Lynn for contributing. The previous issue can be found here.

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