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The Boston Robotics February Meetup

Feb 28
Sat 7:00 PM
Location
Willoughby and Baltic's Hackerspace

197a Elm Stret
Somerville, MA 02144
617-501-0197

This is a private home or office

How to find us
"Come up the stairs."

Estimated attendance
 17  people attended.
4.50 4.503

Who organized?
Meredith Garniss

At our February meetup, we'll take a look at Air Muscles, their use and application. We'll also have materials there so you can take a stab at making your own.

Air muscles use compressed air to expand and contract a balloon-like device to create an extremely powerful lift mechanism.

This event is open to Willoughby and Baltic and Boston Robotics meetup members. There is no cost for this event.

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  • Jon Schwartz
    Posted Mar 5, 2009 2:02 PM
    Jon Schwartz
    I think working in small groups would be the best way to accomplish something by the summer. I really liked the idea of the art bots. We hadn't come up with a way to say who "won" but I liked the idea of bot1 busily trying to draw a pattern while bot2 erases it while bot3 copies it in a different color and bot4 goes off and copies it somewhere else in the space. We end up with something we can display somewhere. Definitely glad I went (even though I was late... sorry)
  • Pre-Meetup comments below
  • Posted Feb 28, 2009 6:40 PM
    Larry_Pfeffer
    Are there any tools and/or materials that'd be helpful for making air muscles? I put a small compressor in my trunk, just in case, along with some misc. pneu fittings. I'm especially interested in learning about how air muscles can be controlled. See you there! -- Larry

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