We met with our advisor today from 10:20-10:50 and reported our progress. Here were the major points of the meeting:

Joan

Packaged the Fedora version of the Research SDK for Arch Linux.
Found the most of the dependencies for the SDK. Still don't know what package provides libmkl_rt.
Emailed the support team about the packaging of the SDK so the developer team could fix this.
There's a fake data generator in the SDK lite for Windows and Mac (That's free!). So try to find the equivalent in the Linux SDK version.
Finish work on not referencing the static copies of the library when possible.
Found a bug in nikola\plugins\task\sitemap__init__.py. It wasn't checking if directories were directories in a cross-platform manner. Will report this to the developers with an official patch.

Drew

Order the parts from SparkFun.
Chassis has built in motors.
We may need a separate shield for driving the wheels?
Probably going to drive the motors with DC.
Settled on multicolor LEDs because single color LEDs can get confusing for debugging.