For those not at the meeting, the vote for the $100 budget for a hive sum bot passed. So we have the funds to buy extra parts in addition to the cannibalized previous sumo bot! This is going to be awesome! A few of us met briefly after the meeting and did some initial research and brainstormed some.
The general plan is to find 3 days when the team is free for several hours to hammer this project out in big steps. This means that this will only be a commitment of a few days, instead of weekly meetings.
The first meeting will be concept and design decisions, initial build work, and fabrication of a test arena.
If you are at all interested, email me off list (temporary.blank@gmail.com) with your availability for the next week EMPHASIS on this weekend (10/10 - 10/12). From the first meeting we can determine the next meeting date.
All following updates will be done off list with the team until it is complete.
"Any idea how to set something up so an alarm will go off if a dog with an RFID tag crosses a sensor? I see these in retail stores, but looking for a small home version.
I'm not that familiar with RFID. Any suggestions on what to tell him? It's a couple who have two dogs. One has cancer and is dying, and the other is a crazy three-year-old who runs away from home and gets lost and worries them. They are *extremely* outdoorsy. The second dog is fine when they are outside and close, but I'm guessing they're trying to prevent him from getting out when when they're inside or sleeping. He recently head butted a door and got out, but he needed stitches. If it's not clear, they really love this guy, they are just convinced he won't grow out of it.
I'm guessing the sensor is for a door, so holding the tag to a sensor won't work. It's got to have a reasonable "capture area".
