Meeting Minutes Saturday February10th, 2018
10:00-11:00 Special Interest Group Lectures- on Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group based on leafproject.org by Dr. Bruce, discusses AI and Navigation topics (Neato Robotics Lidar, Python, SLAM, navigation, velocity scaling).
11:00-12:00 Class -
12:00-12:30 Break - bring your snacks or lunch
12:35-12:45 Business Meeting
- Monthly Events
- Budget
- Next classes and Competitions
12:45- 1:15 Competition-
1:15 - 3:00 Show-N-Tell - Show us what you are working on! Open to anyone to show what they are working on or ask for opinions and getting possible solutions. Impress us with your best creation!
10:00-11:00 Special Interest Group Lectures- on Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group based on leafproject.org by Dr. Bruce, discusses AI and Navigation topics (Neato Robotics Lidar, Python, SLAM, navigation, velocity scaling).
11:00-12:00 Class -
12:00-12:30 Break - bring your snacks or lunch
12:35-12:45 Business Meeting
- Monthly Events
- Budget
- Next classes and Competitions
12:45- 1:15 Competition-
1:15 - 3:00 Show-N-Tell - Show us what you are working on! Open to anyone to show what they are working on or ask for opinions and getting possible solutions. Impress us with your best creation!
10:00 AM AI Special Interest Group session by Dr. Bruce Weimer.
Dr. Bruce covered topics on AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. He covered a little bit of history of these topics including CPUs vs GPUs.
Dr. Bruce covered topics on AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. He covered a little bit of history of these topics including CPUs vs GPUs.
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He talked about the Donkeycar Project (see video) and TensorFlow An open Source Machine Learning framework.
You can play around with your own online neural network at Tensorflow.org.
You can play around with your own online neural network at Tensorflow.org.
11:00 Alan Timm talked about how an inexpensive robotics kit Elegoo EL-KIT from Amazon got him excited about working on an even less expensive kit. When he does presentations people always asks him how to get started in robotics so he decided to figure out how to use some of the components from these inexpensive kits to a better chassis. Alan designed his own chassis that anyone with a 3D printer can 3D print. He uses Fusion 360 to design the two chassis.
12:00 Business Meeting
- budget- 22 paid members for now. $948.56
- We have been invited to a lot of events. We will discuss them via our Yahoo Group.
- Next board meeting will be at 9AM in March before the meeting
- Jon - Mars Rover driver wants to give another talk so Alan will follow up with Bill
- Ontario Library - Star Wars Day. Lauren from that library is looking for volunteer and participants to show and tell on May 12 between 2:00pm and 5:00pm
- budget- 22 paid members for now. $948.56
- We have been invited to a lot of events. We will discuss them via our Yahoo Group.
- Next board meeting will be at 9AM in March before the meeting
- Jon - Mars Rover driver wants to give another talk so Alan will follow up with Bill
- Ontario Library - Star Wars Day. Lauren from that library is looking for volunteer and participants to show and tell on May 12 between 2:00pm and 5:00pm
2018 Schedule
Classes: 11:00 to 12:00
- Jan: Arduino, WiFi and the ESP8266 by Carl Sutter
- Feb: Using very inexpensive kits by Alan Timm
- Mar: All Aluminum R2D2 by Rogelio Dominguez
- Dec: Officer Elections & Pizza Party
Contests:
- Jan: None
- Feb: Color Line Following
- Mar:
- Dec: Talent Contest
Classes: 11:00 to 12:00
- Jan: Arduino, WiFi and the ESP8266 by Carl Sutter
- Feb: Using very inexpensive kits by Alan Timm
- Mar: All Aluminum R2D2 by Rogelio Dominguez
- Dec: Officer Elections & Pizza Party
Contests:
- Jan: None
- Feb: Color Line Following
- Mar:
- Dec: Talent Contest
Color Line Following Contest
Participants: Participants and audience had an exciting time watching these lean mean machines follow color lines!
JimDiNunzio: Snailbot, Bob Huss: Out of Control, Brian: Wheels, Eric Weimer: ROY-G-Bot,
Congratulations to The Winners:
First Place: Brian with robot Wheels 58/60. His robot uses OpenCV and a camera with processor in it, Teensy
Second Place: Snailbot by Jim. His robot uses and Arduino, several RGB color sensors and photo resistors and the Elegoo kit from Amazon.
Third Place: ROY-G-Bot by Eric Weimers. Eric also uses the Amazon kit, Adafruit TCS RGB sensors, He uses machine learning on an Arduino for color classification! See more on this robot itsprojectday.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/machine-learning-color-classifier/
Participants: Participants and audience had an exciting time watching these lean mean machines follow color lines!
JimDiNunzio: Snailbot, Bob Huss: Out of Control, Brian: Wheels, Eric Weimer: ROY-G-Bot,
Congratulations to The Winners:
First Place: Brian with robot Wheels 58/60. His robot uses OpenCV and a camera with processor in it, Teensy
Second Place: Snailbot by Jim. His robot uses and Arduino, several RGB color sensors and photo resistors and the Elegoo kit from Amazon.
Third Place: ROY-G-Bot by Eric Weimers. Eric also uses the Amazon kit, Adafruit TCS RGB sensors, He uses machine learning on an Arduino for color classification! See more on this robot itsprojectday.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/machine-learning-color-classifier/
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Show and Tell
2:05 Walter Martinez demos an experiment using the Brainlink sensor, SMIRF Silver Bluetooth from Sparkfun and his Arduino robot kit. The idea is the robot moves and Walter has to stop it with his mind.
2:05 Walter Martinez demos an experiment using the Brainlink sensor, SMIRF Silver Bluetooth from Sparkfun and his Arduino robot kit. The idea is the robot moves and Walter has to stop it with his mind.
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2:19 Mitch Anderson showed a clip of his robot Andros appearing on TV show SWAT. He also showed many clips of robot at CES Las Vegas 2018. He also demoed his new robot CRS which he is programming using Teensy
2:30 Jim DiNunzio - Talks about his robot Eleego robot kit. Kits comes complete with sensors and instructions. Is Arduino based. Comes with an app and Bluetooth to connect from your phone. He recommends this kit. He also demoed a 3D printed sun dial clock from Thingiverse that took 21 hours to 3D print.
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2:42 Eric Weimers. discusses machine learning and his robot ROY-G-Bot using a Sigmoid function in Arduino.
You can find Eric's full documentation on this project at his awesome blog itsprojectday.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/machine-learning-color-classifier/
You can find Eric's full documentation on this project at his awesome blog itsprojectday.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/machine-learning-color-classifier/
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3:04 Tim Lewis showed videos of the latest animatronic humanoid looking heads.
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3:09 Trish talked about her student Ben who is a youtuber and could possibly record for RSSC. She is also looking for volunteers to help with the Scout Makers group. Email Trish Tsoiasue at [email protected]
Trish's youtube channel has lots of videos on all kinds of Maker subjects. Visit her channel https://www.youtube.com/user/SquiggleMom
Trish's youtube channel has lots of videos on all kinds of Maker subjects. Visit her channel https://www.youtube.com/user/SquiggleMom
3:23 Thomas shows his robot Bettie on power skates. These skates can only move forward.
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