Hello Philly Roboteers.
Our attendance is still going strong, despite the onset of Summer. Don’t forget the July meetup is this week (Thursday 7/14 @ 7:30 @ The Hive). I will post the agenda shortly.
Some highlights from the June Meetup:
- Projects that were discussed:
– Automatic speech language translator
– Electric go-kart
– Balancing / Telepresence Bot group project
– Delta Bot
- Education / Demos:
– Software Version Control systems: SVN, Hg, Git.
– Real Time Operating System demo on TI Piccolo chip (Code Composer Studio)
- Microprocessors / boards discussed
– Atmel AVR (several, including custom boards); AVR Studio 4 and 5
– TI Piccolo DSP; Code Composer Studio
– TI MPS430
– Leaf Labs Maple Mini (STM32)
– Fez Panda
Here are some sort-of local surplus & electronics shops
- http://www.surplusshed.com/. Its near Reading, PA,
- http://www.herbach.com/. They’re located in Moorestown, NJ.
- http://www.interstateelectronics.com (northern NJ)
- And, of course, your local (or online) Radio Shack still has some components
Don’t forget to check out the club website and let us know if you want join the forums
http://phillyrobotics.org/wp
http://phillyrobotics.org/forum/
Also let us know if there’s anything you want to see or bring for the next meetup
Here are some relevant links (note the return of quadrotor videos):
UPenn Quad Bloopers
President Commanding Robot Revolution, Announces Major Robotics Initiative
Open Robotics – a legal perspective
I hope to see you at the meetup!
- Roy