{"id":66,"date":"2009-07-16T00:20:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-07-16T00:20:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:20:21","slug":"20090709-iowa-robotics-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/66\/","title":{"rendered":"20090709 Iowa Robotics Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introductions<\/p>\n<p>Group organization<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discussed various ideas for how to organize.<\/li>\n<li>Competitions?<\/li>\n<li>Teaming w\/ local educational orgs?<\/li>\n<li>Start with the basics and work up? Arduino, Parallax, MindStorms?<\/li>\n<li>Age groups? Any age is welcome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Skills inventory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of programmers\/developers.<\/li>\n<li>Not too many mechanical\/electrical engineers.<\/li>\n<li>No venture capitalists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Projects?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build something for a competition?<\/li>\n<li>Build a <span class=\"caps\">CNC<\/span> machine which can be used for future projects? There seemed to be a lot of support for this idea. Agreed to continue discussion on the mailing list (http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/iowarobotics).<\/li>\n<li>Bring your own and share\/seek assistance?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Matthew Nuzzum demo\u2019d his <span class=\"caps\">VEX<\/span> r\/c platform wheeled robot.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Controller from http:\/\/www.vexrobotics.com\/<\/li>\n<li>Aluminum body with two drive motors and 4 wheels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Uses tank-style steering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gentleman from the Twin Cities Robotics Club (sorry, arrived late and didn\u2019t catch his name) brought his ~70 pound robot<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About 30 pounds of the weight is battery.<\/li>\n<li>Has a sonar array and Web cam for sensors.<\/li>\n<li>Plans to put an on-board Linux computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some links to Web sites brought up during the meeting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open-source_robotics\">Open Source Robotics on Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/openrave.programmingvision.com\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">OpenRAVE Wiki<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\">Arduino<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makingthings.com\/store\/make-controller\/make-controller-kit.html\">Make Controller Kit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/grandchallenge\/index.asp\"><span class=\"caps\">DARPA<\/span> Grand Challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parallax_SX\">Parallax SX Wikipedia page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb881626.aspx\">Microsoft Robotics on <span class=\"caps\">MSDN<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solsylva.com\/\">Solsylva <span class=\"caps\">CNC<\/span> plans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldmine-elec.com\/\">Electronic Goldmine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vexrobotics.com\/\"><span class=\"caps\">VEX<\/span> Robotics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introductions Group organization Discussed various ideas for how to organize. Competitions? Teaming w\/ local educational orgs? Start with the basics and work up? Arduino, Parallax, MindStorms? Age groups? Any age is welcome. Skills inventory Lots of programmers\/developers. Not too many mechanical\/electrical engineers. No venture capitalists. Projects? Build something for a competition? Build a CNC machine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[66,102,103,125,135],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-des-moines","tag-iowa","tag-iowa-robotics","tag-meeting","tag-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}