At the last meeting I took down everyone’s zipcodes, in order to determine the geographic center of the members present. The goal was to determine (roughly!) where a better group project meeting site would need to be located if we move away from bRainSilo.
Geographic Center of Zipcodes
April 16th, 2011BrushBot board build Monday 1/10
January 9th, 2011There’s still a number of BrushBotComm boards that people want to build up, and at Saturday’s meeting we decided to try for a somewhat impromptu board build at this Monday’s (1/10) group project meeting. I realize this is short notice, but at the meeting enough people expressed interest to make it worthwhile. We can have another small build session later for those who can’t make it.
Scott’s bringing the hot-plate reflow system and I’m bringing the parts. You bring whatever parts you might have already gotten from me, some magnifying device if needed, a soldering iron (if you have one) and some cash if you haven’t paid for parts yet.
We’ll be at the bRainSilo:
bRainSilo. 7pm.
http://brainsilo.org/wiki/Location
See you there!
Monty
Brushbot Progress
December 3rd, 2010We’ve been making slow, intermittent progress on firmware for the Brushbot. We reached a new milestone in November, however. We now have simultaneous IR code transmission and reception working, both between bots as well as within a single bot to use for obstacle detection.
Cat uploaded a video she took of my dual brushbot avoiding / attacking objects, during the November 15 group project meeting. See the PARTS flickr pool.
November 2010 Robot Videos
November 18th, 2010We had a great time at the November meeting watching and discussing a number of different robot-related videos.
Here are links to most of them:
http://engineeringtv.com/blogs/etv/archive/2008/05/15/galileo-wheel.aspx
http://www.chilloutzone.to/video/regenwurm-roboter.html
http://io9.com/5637131/robot-opera-is-less-madame-butterfly-more-oops-i-dropped-a-butterfly-screw
http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/Robots/UBot-5
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/geek-builds-functional-wall-e-robot-using-lego
http://io9.com/5474788/the-diy-high+speed-camera-that-is-about-to-change-your-life
http://www.dinofab.com/videos.html
http://www.mikrokopter.com/ucwiki/en/MikroKopter?action=show&redirect=FrontPage
http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/movies/index-e.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WCx8_voRzY
-Pete
Bot Build Night Oct 18
October 18th, 2010A small group of us have been regularly getting together every other Monday night at the bRainSilo to work on swarm bots. We’d love to have more people come join us — especially if you built one of the BrushBotComm boards a while back! We’re at the point where we have bidirectional IR comm code working and want to try it out w/ larger swarms.
This get together is not just about swarm bots though — rather than toiling away alone in the basement on that killer new robot, why not bring it down and work on it in the company of other robot enthusiasts?
7pm, bRainSilo: http://brainsilo.org/wiki/Location
Hope to see you there!
Monty
GIT Repository for Group Projects
October 2nd, 2010The URL is: http://github.org/portlandrobotics
Scott Dixon will fill in details of how to use it. Enjoy!
No 9/6 project meeting
September 6th, 2010Not enough of the regulars can make it tonight so I’m going to cancel the BrainSilo build session.
Have a great Labor Day!
Monty
Bot Build Night Aug 23
August 23rd, 2010Bot Build night Aug 9
August 9th, 2010We’ve been getting together every other Monday night at the silo to work on group projects, but really what we want to see is more robots being built, be it by individuals or groups. So even if you’re not interested in the current swarm robot project, feel free to bring your own robot-to-be on down to share in the excitement of mashing together mechanical bits, hard bits, and soft bits to do cool stuff.
And if you DO have brushbots, bring them down and let’s get them talking!
7pm, bRainSilo:
http://brainsilo.org/wiki/Location
Hope to see you there!
Monty
Project Meeting July 26
July 25th, 2010Pete, Tim, Scott and myself will be there. Will you? Bring your Brush Bot on down and let’s get them talking!
7pm, bRainSilo:
http://brainsilo.org/wiki/Location
Monty
