Meeting Minutes Saturday December 9, 2017
This Month's Schedule
10:00-11:00 Alan Timm discusses servos and positional feedback
11:00-12:00 Class - Social time
12:00-12:30 Break - Annual Pizza Party
1:15-1:30 Business Meeting
- Monthly Events: RSSC participated in two Mini Maker Faires: Downtown Los Angeles Library and Barnes & Noble bookstore in Long Beach
- Budget: Ron announced we still have over $900. minus costs of the pizza and business cards
- Next classes and Competitions for 2018
* January (class): Carl Sutter will discuss and demonstrates the ESP8266 inexpensive Arduino/WiFi board
* February (competition): Color Line Following Contest (Jim U. showed the sample tiles for the contest)
Elections
President: Alan Timm
Vice President: Ben Partida Silva
Secretary: Walter Martinez
Treasurer: Ron Rose
Board Members: Bob Barboza and Bill
Outreach: Trish
1:30- Competition- Talent Contest (bring a robot and impress us!)
2:00 - 3:00 Show-N-Tell
This Month's Schedule
10:00-11:00 Alan Timm discusses servos and positional feedback
11:00-12:00 Class - Social time
12:00-12:30 Break - Annual Pizza Party
1:15-1:30 Business Meeting
- Monthly Events: RSSC participated in two Mini Maker Faires: Downtown Los Angeles Library and Barnes & Noble bookstore in Long Beach
- Budget: Ron announced we still have over $900. minus costs of the pizza and business cards
- Next classes and Competitions for 2018
* January (class): Carl Sutter will discuss and demonstrates the ESP8266 inexpensive Arduino/WiFi board
* February (competition): Color Line Following Contest (Jim U. showed the sample tiles for the contest)
Elections
President: Alan Timm
Vice President: Ben Partida Silva
Secretary: Walter Martinez
Treasurer: Ron Rose
Board Members: Bob Barboza and Bill
Outreach: Trish
1:30- Competition- Talent Contest (bring a robot and impress us!)
2:00 - 3:00 Show-N-Tell
2:00PM Bettie 9 sings the 12 Robots of Christmas and other Christmas Carols presented by Thomas
Bettie 9 uses Alexa voice recognition to receive commands.
Bettie 9 uses Alexa voice recognition to receive commands.
2:10 Tim Lewis shows a VFD (display) he is creating software for. He will have more details later.
He also showed a few videos on animatronics for the new Gremlins movie and some of the things he has worked on the past months. Talked about his experience working with Garner Holt. See videos below on Garner Holt.
He also showed a few videos on animatronics for the new Gremlins movie and some of the things he has worked on the past months. Talked about his experience working with Garner Holt. See videos below on Garner Holt.
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2:37 Mike Maready showed us his balancing robot. Mike was inspired by Sergei's and Mitch's presentation on PID and balancing robots. Mike is close to having it working and believes he can get it to work soon.
2:40 Carl Sutter presents his new Bucketbot 2. Instructables link. Carl's robot uses Roborealm and he demonstrated a feducial course demo.
1:10 Thomas Invited everyone to attend Star Wars Reads Event in Riverside at the Woodcrest Public Library16625 Krameria Ave, Riverside, CA 92504. They will have R2D2, C3PO, BB8. RSSC will be present.
2:33 Tim Lewis