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[SRAWN-SUBMIT] SR2024 Issue 01 #57

Closed sedders123 closed 1 year ago

sedders123 commented 1 year ago 
sryear: SR2024
issue: 01
submission-date: 2023-07-22T00:00:00Z
publication-date: 2023-07-22T12:00:00Z

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Student Robotics (Almost) Weekly Newsletter (aka. SR(A)WN) is a regular newsletter published by Student Robotics volunteers for volunteers.

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PeterJCLaw commented 1 year ago

Are you going to include something general about the new committees? I can't recall how widely the trustees have announced that?

PeterJCLaw commented 1 year ago

The infrastructure team are interested in new members. If you'd like to help out running SR's internal tech infrastructure please post in #infrastructure in slack. The infrastructure team currently meets on Wednesday evenings once a month, however this time is under review to ensure it works well for all team members.

RealOrangeOne commented 1 year ago

A couple weeks ago, volunteers assembled in Southampton to perform maintenance on the kits. Kits were tested, cleaned, updated and organised for next year. It was an incredibly productive event, so thanks you everyone who made it possible.

The kit team recently undertook the mammoth task of rewriting the firmware on the motor and power boards, to both expose more features, improve maintainability and ease of use. The new firmware will ship in SR2024, to go alongside the updated power board firmware we shipped in SR2023. The power, servo and motor firmwares are all available on our GitHub. A massive thanks to Will Barber for his huge contributions to this effort.

We need to finish off the cleaning and testing of the kit, and start packing it into boxes ready to be shipped to teams. No technical experience is required, nor is experience with the kit. Just a willingness to get involved and an appetite to learn. If you're interested in helping out, complete this poll by 1st August.

The kit team are considering what the next iteration of kit might look like, and are open to any and all suggestions and opinions for how it should work, featureset and design. A meeting has been scheduled for September 19th at 7:15, all volunteers are welcome. More details can be found in our calendar.

We're starting up a SIG (Special Interest Group) for getting the SR robot simulator ready for kickstart! If you're interested in getting involved, react to the thread in Slack.