Sep 12, 2009

Meeting Date: 
Saturday, September 12, 2009

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CLASS:

Robin Hewitt gave a class on object recognition.


BUSINESS MEETING

Upcoming Classes

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

November: Animatronics by Tim Louis

December: Robin’s Blaze

Upcoming Contests

•  October: Maze Contest

•  November: Robo Gilligan / Mini-Magellan;

•  December: (None) Talent show

Other Upcoming Other Events

•  December: Talent Show


Open House Potluck

Instead of holding a contest, the club organized a friendly-get-together potluck, inviting friends and family. Just to show the significant others what we do on these precious saturday meetings ...

Many members showed off what they were working on for friends and family. Food was served outside and there was a lot of delicious food.

 


SHOW AND TELL

Martin and Jef demo’ed their maze robots. They both had a Pololu 3pi robot. The course was black electrical tape on grey floor tile underground. For some reason, the robots had a tough time keeping track. Something they had less problems with in Line following mode.

 


Krishna demo’ed his Ball Picker Robot.

 


Alex showed his rocky robot responding to voice commands:

 


Martin demonstrated his blue tooth controlled walking robot.

 


 

Marty demonstrated his Bot that he will use in the Robo Magellan contest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Maya Messerschmidt demonstrated her mini Femisapien.