> Recap?
It was mentioned there were three elements: Virtual, Small (Bart), and Large (Homer).
We looked at the three basic shapes: Horizontal Rectangle, Circle, and Vertical Rectangle. I suggested that I was pursuing the Circular base for Homer.
I demo'ed the "Follower" robot from the Model Editor tutorial:
http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?cat=guided_b&tut=guided_b3 ...and showed a circular-based model that I had created <attached> and we discussed how once a Gazebo model had been saved, it couldn't be deconstructed, and it seemed to save as a monolithic "xml" file. There was also some discussion as to the difference between urdf and sdf. We also talked about tools to create models, Model Builder, SketchUp, Fusion360, etc.
We went around the table, and different folks talked about what they were working on (8 participants). Callan from Southern California had been to a few meetings and is heavily into 3D printing. Bob Smith talked about micro-ROS and using it on the Pi Zero. Bob is heavily involved with FPGAs.
Chaz talked about moving this IMU to ROS2:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N03WKDV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00 Here is the ROS1 package:
https://github.com/yowlings/wit_node Mr. Mike, at this point, gave a preview of his Behavior Tree presentation scheduled for January 26:
http://www.hbrobotics.org He showed a simulation featuring Ralph Gnauck's simbot https://github.com/gnaur/simbot where the robot would find the nearest wall and continue from there. He also demonstrated the Behavior Tree graphically using Groot.
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