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**Meeting Minutes - October 30th, 2008**

**Present:**
  * Dr. Hastrudi-Zaad
  * Jonathan Mash
  * Mike Studli
  * Liliane Barbour

**Agenda**
  * Proposal paper


**Discussion:**

  * Reviewed proposal report

  * Looked at web-site

  * Clean front end of web-site

  * Have some password protection option

**Project:**

  * Check devices but we may need budget approval first	
  * Contact: Steve Humphrey
  * Items and testing devices
  * Use volt meter and oscilloscope to test
  * Particular bench set-up if we need special equipment
  * Research proximity sensors
  * Discussed next meeting date
  *   * field trip next Thursday so the following Thursday November 13th


**Deliverables for the next meeting**

  * Deliverables for November 13th Meeting:
  * Look at sensors
  * Crude plan of what we want to do
  * Present all options (uC, fpga, etc)
  * Up-dated budget
  * Be ready to start ordering


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**Meeting Minutes - Nov 14, 2008**

Sensors
  * Putting blinders on sensors
    * Problem that it might not detect close objects.
  * Need more cure for sensors to each have their own area.
  * Need to test thermal sensor -> see if can be used to differentiate between objects
  * Will order more PIRs later in case some get damaged

Motor
  *	How much force on gears? Don’t want to break
  *	If use gears can use a smaller stepper motor
  *	Algorithm: ramp start and stop
  *	Spline curve -> so can start acceleration with zero slope at beginning and zero slope at end
    *	Spline toolbox in MATLAB

Electrical
  *	Heat sinks
  *	Do we need an enclosure?
  *	Test on bigger TVs

Microcontroller
  *	Need a lot of analog ports -> 8?
  *	Serial output

Ordering plan
  *	Buy pre-fab controller, and purchase PING, etc.
  *	When see how much money left, then buy parts for custom controller and PIR sensors
  *	PERF board
  *	Need to put PCB boards in the budget

What we need now
  *	Excel table with minimum costs in a budget
  *	Possible other budget with custom controller, etc.

For next week
  *	Budget
  *	Test thermal sensors
  *Test volume
    *	Look for evaluation board for controller
    *	Ease of programming
    *	Power supply
    *	memory
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**Meeting Minutes - Nov 20, 2008**
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