Add minutes for 2025-05-20

Author: RealOrangeOne

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+# Kit Team Meeting 2025-05-20
+
+## Attendees
+
+### Present
+
+- Alex Colville
+- Jake Howard
+- Karina Kwiatek
+- Keith Emerson
+- Will Barber
+
+### Apologies
+
+## Topics
+
+### Kit Recovery
+
+- Jake hasn't had a chance to filter for teams we need to chase yet
+- Jake has collected 4 kits from Diane
+    - And will bring them to collation
+- We've closed off the kits we don't think are worth collecting
+
+### Kit collation
+
+- Will has written some documentation
+- Jake has a plan
+- Likely 5 people
+
+### Competition retro
+
+- Emphasise importance of battery protection, size constraints, wheel fixings, wiring guide
+    - Pause to allow motion to stop
+    - Care when using while loops
+    - Strategies to recognise stuck robots
+- More rigid booking for test arena (like tinker time)
+- Empower volunteers (not just on helpdesk) to step in (challenge) when they see unsafe things
+- Ensure we encourage ground being black (doesn't need to be a rule). Robot design suggestions
+- L4 shepherds and reception training
+- Ensure match ops are aware of safety check rules etc
+- Track safety / regs checks in helpdesk system
+- Put safety and regs checklists on the docs
+- Ensure links in helpdesk system are public
+- Include help text above comment box to mention including context
+- Overnight battery loans could be part of attendance tracking, to make checking teams in on Sunday easier.
+- Show TLAs on attendance page
+- Improved filtering for teams
+- Explicitly require laptops for helpdesk (and include suggestion in role docs)
+- Ensure "do not leave unattended" is in battery charger docs
+- Have WiFi docs on helpdesk
+- Make "do we want it back" clearer on kit issue checklist and docs
+- Dispatch kits in multiple waves
+- Include an ultrasound sensor as standard (will need documentation)
+
+## Competition feedback
+
+- Document writing code over SSH (VSCode remote dev)
+- Prevent subclassing of robot
+- How to do good logging guide (including that prints slow things down)
+- Encoder support for kit
+    - They're not perfect
+- Multiple camera support
+- Document Arduino web IDE
+- Remind teams that multiple arduinos is supported (don't need to use ours)
+
+### Other
+
+- All committees is today. Anything to raise?
+- [Issues in minutes repo (action points from previous meetings)](https://github.com/srobo/kit-team-minutes/issues)
+    - ACTION Sort this out
+- [SR(A)WN](https://github.com/srobo/srawn/issues)
+- After meeting doing
+- AOB?
+    
+- Thank Yous and Well Dones
+