Meeting report - April 13, 2019 at California State University, Long Beach
10:00 AM Dr. Bruce demonstrated his latest autonomous robot using the SLAMTec platform, game controller, RoboClaw motor controllers, 7 inch LCD, Intel NUC small computer.
He proposed a challenge and will give $20 to whomever can create a way in Python to accept speech questions and bring back answers.
He proposed a challenge and will give $20 to whomever can create a way in Python to accept speech questions and bring back answers.
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11:00 Tim Lewis - shares his 3D printing experiences.
12:27 Ben - we have a student who can help us do a new logo design. We can discuss later
Ron - Treasury report - we have $1229.38
Walter Martinez offered two free Battlebots tickets for the TV show filming in Lakewood CA
Bob Barboza mentioned there is the Festival of Books and there will be robot related books showings
Ron - Treasury report - we have $1229.38
Walter Martinez offered two free Battlebots tickets for the TV show filming in Lakewood CA
Bob Barboza mentioned there is the Festival of Books and there will be robot related books showings
12:39 Dr. Bruce showed his Microbit robot with obstacle avoidance.
He challenges people to create a robot programmed in Micropython that does obstacle avoidance and makes a beep sound when it backs up. He is offering $10 to the winner.
He challenges people to create a robot programmed in Micropython that does obstacle avoidance and makes a beep sound when it backs up. He is offering $10 to the winner.
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12:44 Jim DiNunzio
presented on how Jim U. and him have been going to the monthly Meetup in Costa Mesa related to Arduino and Raspberry Pi programming. He mentioned the website by one of the members that has lots of great information at https://ArduinoRaspi.blogspot.com
Jim also mentioned the Coursera class on Control of Mobile Robots. The class offers great information on controls theory and the math behind it. The class is free or get a certificate and course grade if you pay for it.
Jim experimented with his SLAMTec robot to create a map of his room. Amazingly he can tell his robot to go to a specific room in his house and the robot goes there.
Jim showed his Microbit robot the Mcqueen from DFRobot and explained how simple it is. Microcenter has it for $9.99.
presented on how Jim U. and him have been going to the monthly Meetup in Costa Mesa related to Arduino and Raspberry Pi programming. He mentioned the website by one of the members that has lots of great information at https://ArduinoRaspi.blogspot.com
Jim also mentioned the Coursera class on Control of Mobile Robots. The class offers great information on controls theory and the math behind it. The class is free or get a certificate and course grade if you pay for it.
Jim experimented with his SLAMTec robot to create a map of his room. Amazingly he can tell his robot to go to a specific room in his house and the robot goes there.
Jim showed his Microbit robot the Mcqueen from DFRobot and explained how simple it is. Microcenter has it for $9.99.
1:09 Dennis Mangrobang presented on his project to get kids to explore STEM and how he was inspired by the Microbit presentation last month. He purchased a sensor shield similar to what Walter Martinez presented last month.
1:26 Bob Barboza spoke about his Tiger Teams
2:20 Alan Timm from Alan's Robot Lab - showed his new quadraped "Tod the Quad". He is implementing this using the Pi Zero and ROS for the Pi Zero
2:33 Tim Lewis showed a eyes mechatronincs mechanism that he wants to 3D print.
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