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+# Kit Team Meeting 2024-08-13
+
+## Attendees
+
+### Present
+
+- Karina Kwiatek
+- Jake Howard
+- Will Barber
+
+### Apologies
+
+## Topics
+
+- Kit return
+    - There are probably some kits in UK Postbox
+        - Jake is working with Scarzy to get them delivered to him
+    - We need to chase teams
+        - Jake to do
+
+- Kit packing
+    - Limitations
+        - Chargers
+        - Batteries
+        - Battery bags
+        - C270s
+        - Camcons
+        - Screwdrivers
+    - Budget
+        - Shipping costs
+    - Packing materials
+        - Likely some still in the container
+    - Shipping
+        - Batteries don't need to be declared, but do need stickers
+            - https://www.ups.com/assets/resources/media/en_GB/pack_ship_batteries.pdf
+    - Jake will take a trip to the container at some point before packing
+    - Cases
+        - Will to sort out
+
+    - Timeline
+        - Kickstart: 12th / 19th October
+        - Shipping date: 28th September
+        - Sign-ups close: 14th September
+        - Packing: 7th September?
+            - Jake to announce
+        - Order deadline: 31st August
+        - Long lead-time orders: 24th August
+
+- Kit changes
+    - OS update
+        - Leave as bullseye, upgrade in the year
+    - Python upgrade?
+    - Ultrasound for arduino
+    - Simulator
+        - import sbot_simulator
+        - Support Astoria
+        - Backport docs
+    - Better code killing (from `sbot`)
+    - Save argument on `robot.camera.see`
+    - Dependency bumps
+    - Robot constructor argument to skip power board requirement
+    - Documentation
+        - Comp mode USBs
+
+- Pre-kickstart challenges (simulator)
+    - Using externally-created assets
+        - This is likely the cause of a large number of physics issues
+        - It's probably a bad idea
+        - Hard to properly test vs Webots primitives
+    - Multiple worlds
+        - More work than is necessary?
+        - Against the spirit?
+        - Just as productive to build something simple
+    - Custom robots
+        - Incredibly complex
+        - Detecting components is possible, but uniquely identifying could be difficult
+        - Opens up more potential physics issues
+        - There's an editor, but it's poorly maintained https://github.com/cyberbotics/robot-designer
+    - Request perhaps goes against original spirit?
+        - More challenges, not a bootstrapping activity
+        - Back to competition committee
+
+### Short term projects
+
+### Long term projects
+
+#### Inventory
+
+- No update
+
+#### V5 Kit
+
+- No update
+
+### Kit recovery
+
+- No update
+
+### Other
+
+- [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
+