SR(A)WN 2014-12-17 : SR2015 Issue 12<

SR(A)WN

Student Robotics (Almost) Weekly Newsletter

2014-12-17 : SR2015 Issue 12

This is the twelfth issue of the Student Robotics (Almost) Weekly Newsletter, a (roughly) fortnightly newsletter which summarises the goings‐on across Student Robotics. Emboldened items are ones which we believe could do with extra hands. An absence of emboldening does not necessarily mean that everything is done.

Internal Updates:

Multiple tech days happened, with some interesting results—no teams turned up at Southampton. Attendance has started to be recorded as a result of this.
Student Robotics was shown off at Southampton to prospective students.
An update on the charity situation was posted. The charity application has been submitted and there has been a large objection to this, leading to two committee members announcing that they will resign.
Team QMC were given a new power board.
Numerous purchasing tickets were closed. [^0]
Work on the tools continues and should be ready for public testing shortly.
Some of the camera documentation has been discovered to be wrong.
Duplicate asset codes were discovered in the inventory.
A decision on how to proceed in terms of product searching in the tools has yet to be made.
An update on team account creation was posted.
An issue in the power board relating to I<sup>2</sup>C has been fixed.
Output current reading measurements have been taken.
An update to the rules fixing references to SR2014 has been uploaded.

Team Updates:

HRS have been experiencing problems with the current limit on the power board.
HRS may have a problem with their camera. They discovered that they could not take photos at certain resolutions.
CLY have been getting a mysterious beeping noise.

Thanks to Tom Leese, Tyler Ward and Alistair Lynn for working on this issue. The previous issue can be found here.

[^0] See tickets closed on 6th December in the timeline.

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