October 2011 Philly Robotics Meetup

October 2011 Philly Robotics Meetup Agenda

• Welcome new members/visitors

• Club business / Discuss ways to promote and grow the club

• Current Projects

-- Sumo Bot group project discussion
This will be a discussion in preparation for a future hands-on workshop / project for all levels. This will give us a relatively simple project to work on as a group while allowing us each to have a robot for use in other projects.

-- Let us know if you have any other projects you want to demo or discuss

• Upcoming Events

-- Next Fab Studio tour (http://www.nextfabstudio.com)
They limit group tours to 15 people. I'm still interested in this. Let's look at dates in Nov or Dec.

-- Team DARwin visit
Winnners of the 2011 RoboCup, based in U Penn (and Virgina Tech)
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/media/feature-darwin.php

-- The Philadelphia Area Computer Society (www.pacsnet.org) is still looking for presenters from the Philly Robotics Group for thier Nov 19th meeting. They asked for a presentation on one or more of the following:
Demos
History
Hardware and software
Major developments in home and industry Robotics
Robotics in Space
Robotic Science Fiction

Is anyone interested in presenting? Could be a good recruiting opportunity for our group. They meet in Willow Grove. (I have not been to any of their meetings)

-- Heads Up - hive microcontroller class is presenting techniques for microcontrollers to monito motion:

http://www.hive76.org/mmmm-monitoring-motion

Hope to see you at the meetup!
Roy