Meeting Minutes December 10th, 2016 - Free Pizza this month!
RSSC was at the Southern California MakerCon 2016 at the Pomona Fairgrounds See photos from the event: http://www.rssc.org/socalmakercon2016.html RSSC was at the San Diego Maker Faire 2016. See photos from the event: http://www.rssc.org/sdmakerfaire2016.html Schedule 10:00-11:00 leafproject.org Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group - Dr. Bruce discusses AI topics (Neato Robotics Lidar, Python, SLAM, navigation) 11:00-12:30 Pizza Party!!! 12:30-12:45 Business Meeting Join our mailing list to be up to date on our discussions: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RSSC-list/info 1:00 - Talent Contest! Impress us with your latest creation! 2:30 - Show-N-Tell - Show us what you are working on! 10:00-11:00 Dr. Bruce talks about the A* Pathfinding Algorithm. Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L-WgKMFuhE
RSSC Would like to thank our outgoing president for 2016 Dr. Bruce!
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RSSC at the San Diego Maker Faire 2016.
See report and photos here: http://www.rssc.org/sdmakerfaire2016.html 
2016 RSSC Event Participation:
SoCal Maker Convention in Pomona, Saturday November 5th. Get tickets at http://socalmakercon.com http://www.rssc.org/socalmakercon2016.html San Diego Makers Faire Oct. 1 & 2, 2016 http://sandiego.makerfaire.com/ See our report: http://www.rssc.org/sdmakerfaire2016.html National Robotics Week! April 2-10, 2016 http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ |
11:05 - 12:30 Pizza Party!
12:31- 1:00 Business Meeting
Budget: We have over $900 in the budget minus the cost of the pizza party
2017 Officers
President: Eric Wiemers
Alan Timm: Vice President
Secretary: Walter Martinez
Treasurer: Ron Rose
Board Member: Bob Barboza, Trish Tsoiasue and Thomas M.
2017 Scheduled Events
Classes:
- Jan: Robotics in Education
- Feb: Alan - All about Git Hub
- Mar: Robotics Communication
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Budget: We have over $900 in the budget minus the cost of the pizza party
2017 Officers
President: Eric Wiemers
Alan Timm: Vice President
Secretary: Walter Martinez
Treasurer: Ron Rose
Board Member: Bob Barboza, Trish Tsoiasue and Thomas M.
2017 Scheduled Events
Classes:
- Jan: Robotics in Education
- Feb: Alan - All about Git Hub
- Mar: Robotics Communication
- Apr:
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- October:
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Contests:
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1:00 - Talent Contest
1:00 - 1:14 First project was Robot Cricket Locator by John Davi.
Detecting the location of the sounds of a cricket. Currently he uses discrete electronics.
1:00 - 1:14 First project was Robot Cricket Locator by John Davi.
Detecting the location of the sounds of a cricket. Currently he uses discrete electronics.
1:15 - 1:34 Walter and Trish show off the latez masks they created from a class they took
They discussed the challenges and processes of making a latext mask
They discussed the challenges and processes of making a latext mask
1:35 - Thomas -Humnoid Robot Stuart
Thomas uses the EZ-Robot board for voice recognition and motor controlling and he demonstrated some of his humanoid motions based on voice commands.
Thomas uses the EZ-Robot board for voice recognition and motor controlling and he demonstrated some of his humanoid motions based on voice commands.
1;51 - Alan Timm
Demonstrates the latest software he created for his InMoov based robot Grey. Alan' robot uses a technique called interpolation for motion and the movements are random based on the robot's workspace
Demonstrates the latest software he created for his InMoov based robot Grey. Alan' robot uses a technique called interpolation for motion and the movements are random based on the robot's workspace
2:00-2:25 Mitch - Walee
uses Arduino Mega (6 of them) for balancing, inertia, built-in voice recognition and other parts of the robot. Mitch daisy chained the Arduinos to pass information from one board to another.
uses Arduino Mega (6 of them) for balancing, inertia, built-in voice recognition and other parts of the robot. Mitch daisy chained the Arduinos to pass information from one board to another.
2:26 - Autonomous Boat project with the Boyscout club in Long Beach with guidance from Les Howell. They have invested about 75 hours on this project and the kids working on the project have learned quite a bit. They are using Arduino, PixyCam, GPS and a lot of other sensors and are ready to test on the water.
2016 Scheduled Events
Classes:
- June: Bob Barboza class/discussion on Arduino Satellite Project
- July: 3D printing InMoov robots class by Alan, Thomas and Walter
- Aug: InMoov, ROS and xBox Kinect integration
- Sept: Materials by Eric W.
- Oct: Animatronics/Robots for Halloween by industry expert Tim Lewis
- Nov: Animatronics/Robots Part II by industry expert Tim Lewis
- Dec:We will not have a class for this month due to pizza party
Contests:
- Jul: Outdoor Robotics Contest
- Oct: Biped Robot Competition - robot walks ten feet in one direction, turns around and comes back to it original starting area. Fastest and more
accurate to the final destination wins.
- Nov: Get me a soda/drink from the refrigerator contest
- Dec: Talent Contest and Pizza Party
Classes:
- June: Bob Barboza class/discussion on Arduino Satellite Project
- July: 3D printing InMoov robots class by Alan, Thomas and Walter
- Aug: InMoov, ROS and xBox Kinect integration
- Sept: Materials by Eric W.
- Oct: Animatronics/Robots for Halloween by industry expert Tim Lewis
- Nov: Animatronics/Robots Part II by industry expert Tim Lewis
- Dec:We will not have a class for this month due to pizza party
Contests:
- Jul: Outdoor Robotics Contest
- Oct: Biped Robot Competition - robot walks ten feet in one direction, turns around and comes back to it original starting area. Fastest and more
accurate to the final destination wins.
- Nov: Get me a soda/drink from the refrigerator contest
- Dec: Talent Contest and Pizza Party