Meeting Date: Saturday September 14, 2013

Minutes: Walter

Special Interest Group (starts at 10am every meeting): Leaf.org an Artificial Intelligence Robot

Topics: Behavior Scripts - settings values to be random, manual or defaults by Dr. Bruce

Class (starts at 11am every meeting) : Lego NXT Sensor Interfacing

Interesting sensors were covered: Funduino and HMC5883L

More info can be found at http://profmason.com/

Business

Our budget is looking good. Five new members signed up this month.  They gave a $10 yearly donation.

Next month’s class is on Linux and robotics.

Next month's contest will be on Finding the Blob in the Hall - rules provided by Bill

Next month is our pizza party!

Contest

Contest was cancelled this month.  Members do not have bipedal robots ready for this contest yet.

Show-N-Tell

Walter- demonstrated how he used Google Sketchup to design a simple educational robot kit then joined a www.factoryenova.com a laser cutting studio where he took his designed file and cut the parts in different materials (plywood, MDF and acrylic) to create his prototype. Walter then used http://fritzing.org/ to deveolp great looking diagram and layouts for his educational curriculum. Walter also designed sensor brackets using Sketchup and printed them using a 3D printer. Using this tools allowed him to create a product. Another new tool to design and simulate Arduino circuits is www.virtualbreadboard.com After finding the shortcomings of Sketchup (not able to rezise to scale where drilled holes are) a couple of deisign tools for robotics were recommended:   Solidworks and OpenSCAD http://www.openscad.org/

Prof Mason - demonstrated a new robot named BoB that can be downloaded and 3D printed http://makezine.com/2013/08/25/build-your-own-biped-robot/

CSULB graduate demonstrated his online telepresence robot (I will post the website when I find it). 

Next Month

Contests:

October - Find the Blob In The Hall (we have some great prizes from www.parallax.com www.pololu.com  and www.servocity.com

November – 16oz BattleRobots follow RFL rules http://botleague.info/doc/RFLTechRegs-2010-final.pdf

Video from the RCX - Expo in Long Beach, competition by Prof Mason https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i5WRviGu5og

Dec – Yearly Talent Contest

Classes:

October – Lego NXT Sensor Interfacing

November - Sergei on TrackRoamer  http://trackroamer.com/

December - Walking Robots by ?