We've been here all morning preparing the room:
- Drawing a 5x3meters rectangle as our "area" for Chasso;
- Testing the compass values of Chasso, so that we assemble the room with the least influences possible (turn out to be a maximum amount of 2 degrees - much better than any value we got anytime before);
- Testing the ambient light (to know how we can calibrate Maria and still have good results for facial recognition);
- Assemble a second projector, for closeups on the robots (since not everybody will be able to see them on the floor);
- Assemble everything else and to some dry runs.
At 17h00, with the heat, we started having problems. Until that time, everything was running smoothly and as planned. But, then, the USB hub inside Maria blew up, as well as the web cameras whom also stopped work. We had to rush thru the university to get 4 fans and try to cool everything up and substitute the hub.
We eventually manage to cool down everything, including the PC, which also, by then, was also having errors on the wi-fi board and because one of the web cameras was "dead", we had to recalibrate Maria and do the presentation with less sensitivity on Maria.
