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Class:

John Wright - Driver of the Mars Rover talks about his work at JPL on the Mars Rovers and the ATHLETE lunar rover research project

 

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BUSINESS MEETING

Martin Mason, club prez, will be leaving for England and VP Dr. Bruce will take over as acting president.

Upcoming Classes

September: Modeling biped locomotion by Martin our company president

October: Building A.L.I.C.E. chatbot with Thomas Messerschmidt

November: Animatronics by Tim Louis

December: TBD

Upcoming Contests

•  September: Labyrinth

•  October: Robo-Magellan

•  November: TBD

•  December: (None)

Other Upcoming Events

•  September: RSSC Open House and Pot Luck Lunch

•  December: Talent Show

 

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CONTEST:

Soda Can Pickup (RC and Autonomous). Read all about it here.

Congratulations to the Winners!

• 1st place: 12 seconds, Craig Jeffries’ Vx9000
• 2nd place: 13 Jimmy’s Sybout
• 3rd place: 25 Paul Ashley’s robot
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   4th Place: 33 Ron Rose’s robot

Although Bob Huss did not finish in 60 seconds, his robot LINK did eventually find and pick up the soda can by sensors alone. For this superior effort, he won a consolation prize.

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SHOW AND TELL

 

John showed us his 3D plans for his next robot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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•  Paul Ashley is giving FREE robotics classes in Downy for families, building Vex squarebots on Wednseday nights at 7 PM.

 

 

 

 

 

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Martin told us how to convert the Vexplorer to a computer controlled robot. Details are on his web page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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•  Ron Rose showed the sensor readings on his can pickup contest VEX robot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Martin showed us his work-in-progress on his RoboMagellan robot:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bob doesn't have time to work on his robot Link at home, so he brought it in the meeting. He started to work on it somewhere in the 80-ties. He is almost finished ....