Meeting Minutes Saturday September 8th, 2018
10:00-11:00 Special Interest Group Lectures- on Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group based on leafproject.org by Dr. Bruce, discusses a new SLAM navigation product
11:00-12:00 Class - Les Howell presents Raspberry PI Clusters
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 a new SLAM navigation product
11:00-12:00 Class - Les Howell presents Raspberry PI Clusters
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 AI Special Interest Group session by Dr. Bruce Weimer.
Dr. Bruce covered topics on AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
"A Game Changer for Robotics" Dr. Bruce presented a new product that does SLAM very reliably using this $499 product https://www.seeedstudio.com/SDP-Mini-RPlidar-Experimental-Platform-p-2905.html
Dr. Bruce covered topics on AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
"A Game Changer for Robotics" Dr. Bruce presented a new product that does SLAM very reliably using this $499 product https://www.seeedstudio.com/SDP-Mini-RPlidar-Experimental-Platform-p-2905.html
11:00 Raspberry Pi Clusters by Les Howell. Below are his presentation and instructions on how to build your own cluster including the Raspberry Pi 3B+ image.
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1:35 Business Meeting
We are having our Clean the Room or Take Out the Trash Contest in October 2018. See rules https://www.rssc.org/cleantheroom.html
We are having our Clean the Room or Take Out the Trash Contest in October 2018. See rules https://www.rssc.org/cleantheroom.html
1:55 Bob Barboza talked about the Robot Showcase https://www.rssc.org/event-reports.html and https://robotshowcase.wordpress.com/blog/
2:00 Mitch demonstrated his Wall-e mini replica built with lots of Arduino Minis, drill motors, custom tracks and voice recognition
2:30 Mitch Anderson recommends a book Future Crimes by Marc Goodman and another book called Manna and the effects of automation on society by Marshall Brain.
2:34 Thomas M. announced the Riverside Robotics Society meeting for next month
2:37 Oscar Morales talked about the idea of measuring position based on time of flight TOF where autonomous RC cars with Raspberry Pi work collaboratively in a swarm format.