Please use these documents to base your projects on:

template.txt
example.txt (there might be some better examples below)

Having figured out most of the data on the template will start the project off with good focus and allow faster funding.

File format guidelines:

Please use plain text for the minutes and the first page of the proposal (project name, description, parts, costs, tasks, basic plan, etc..). If you want to make headings stick out more, then please use html or xhtml (XML compatible html) with stylesheets.
Please use postscript/eps of pdf formats for vector graphics (circuit drawings, cad drawings)
Please use png (portable network graphics), gif, or jpg for raster images (photographs)
Most project files will be zipped up into Windows zip and Linux bz2 archives to save space and keep things a little more organized.

Name Description Files

Batter Charger 20020903 Battery recharger that can: charge batteries from 1V to 18V, detect the battery type, charge fast (near the C rate - approx. 30mins-2hours), determine if a battery is bad, measure internal resistance, indicate the current charge level of batteries, and maybe even sweep the floor (probably not) Proposal
Minutes
bz2 archive
zip archive (n/a)
20020903_charger/

Pic Programmer 20020903 Simple pic programmer based on David Tait's classic pic programmer. Proposal
Minutes
bz2 archive
zip archive (n/a)
20020903_picprg/

Solenoids 20020829 Build solenoids for locomotion. Proposal
Minutes
bz2 archive
zip archive

Microcontrollers 20020829 Invest in many PIC16F871 microcontrollers for control and testing. Proposal
Minutes
bz2 archive
zip archive (n/a)
20020829_mcu/

spring_01 These are programs and specifications for our Spring 2001 robot that entered the Trinity fire fighting robot competition. The program was tweaked at the last minute before we had to put the robot in the ring. The oscillations in its wall following were unnaceptable, so we wrote a circular queue to keep track of the history of error in distance from the wall and compute differences between the present error and past error. This was because the difference approximates a derivative and intuitively, that seemed like it would dampen the oscillations. It turns out that this is called a PD control system (PD = Proportional + Derivative). Source code bzip2
Source code zip
HC12 port descriptions
Online viewable source

"braybot"
This is a robot whose base is two wheels connected to motors for linear and rotational locomotion. A rod is attached to the base with a pivot, sorta like an inverted pendulum. The top of the rod is attached to a tray. The robot must be able to balance itself as well as keep the surface of the tray level so that it can carry things on the tray. The name braybot might. It stands for Balancing tRAY roBOT.
Team

Name	Description	Files
Batter Charger 20020903	Battery recharger that can: charge batteries from 1V to 18V, detect the battery type, charge fast (near the C rate - approx. 30mins-2hours), determine if a battery is bad, measure internal resistance, indicate the current charge level of batteries, and maybe even sweep the floor (probably not)	Proposal Minutes bz2 archive zip archive (n/a) 20020903_charger/
Pic Programmer 20020903	Simple pic programmer based on David Tait's classic pic programmer.	Proposal Minutes bz2 archive zip archive (n/a) 20020903_picprg/
Solenoids 20020829	Build solenoids for locomotion.	Proposal Minutes bz2 archive zip archive
Microcontrollers 20020829	Invest in many PIC16F871 microcontrollers for control and testing.	Proposal Minutes bz2 archive zip archive (n/a) 20020829_mcu/
spring_01	These are programs and specifications for our Spring 2001 robot that entered the Trinity fire fighting robot competition. The program was tweaked at the last minute before we had to put the robot in the ring. The oscillations in its wall following were unnaceptable, so we wrote a circular queue to keep track of the history of error in distance from the wall and compute differences between the present error and past error. This was because the difference approximates a derivative and intuitively, that seemed like it would dampen the oscillations. It turns out that this is called a PD control system (PD = Proportional + Derivative).	Source code bzip2 Source code zip HC12 port descriptions Online viewable source
"braybot"	This is a robot whose base is two wheels connected to motors for linear and rotational locomotion. A rod is attached to the base with a pivot, sorta like an inverted pendulum. The top of the rod is attached to a tray. The robot must be able to balance itself as well as keep the surface of the tray level so that it can carry things on the tray. The name braybot might. It stands for Balancing tRAY roBOT.	Team