Re: [TAR] Need a new meeting space - any suggestions?
Pete Soper
�� The Wake County library folks have not given me a thumbs up or down for using the room in Morrisville on the 1st Monday (the 6th) for a get together for our groups as a temporary measure. I'll bother them tomorrow to try to get a decision. Your proposal and the IEEE proposal are very welcome from my standpoint.
Regards,
Pete
On 04/24/2013 08:55 PM, Ken Boone wrote:
I'll add my two bits.
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I liked NCSU centennial campus because you could always find parking. That is not the case on the main campus. Unless the parking and security have changed we could always park and get into the building if you knew the right door to enter.
I also like the idea of interfacing with the three on campus robotics groups and being at a location that students can easily attend without having to drive.
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I have been mulling around an additional idea. I would consider many of the technical groups in the triangle area are composed of Makers. Maybe have a Quarterly joint meeting for just Makers to describe their current projects and group brainstorming to help. We would need a limited time for each project.
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I have been thinking of possible TAR club project ideas:
First I have three large kid riding toys each with two driven wheels. Remind you of anything on Mars? I bought them at a yard sale with building a version of the two middle rovers (Opportunity like) in mind. The rover could be plenty strong enough to let small children actually ride it. It would be a big hit at Robot Rumble.
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The second idea i have been batting around is a small robot that would simulate a fire fighters assistance robot. The robot would be remote operated with possibly stereo vision (mono vision at first). The robot would have sensors so it would detect/avoid objects and have sensor readings overlaid on the color video. Sensed flames would also be overlaid on the video in red.
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Recently i have been batting around a one half size fire fighting robot contest using modified rules of the Trinity contest with everything half size. �Four by four foot arena and 6� cubed robots.� A lot easier size arena to use at home to practice and to carry around.
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It was too late to help the Raleigh Tech Shop but there was a great series of articles in May Popular Mechanics on Micro-manufacturing (small manufacturing businesses). One of the examples is a Raleigh man that used Raleigh Tech Shop for making his products.
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Since we had such short notice maybe TAR can meet at my house this Monday.
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The house and the Robotorium is a mess but I thought I would throw out the invite.� Only regular TAR meeting attendees please and contact me for the address.� Please don�t post the address.� Email me direct with how to contact you if you are interested in coming.
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Ken
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paul celmer
Now that Techshop has died I might have more time for electronics. I
have a question:
I see that radio shack has many arduino parts. I have an arduino uno and
the motor controller shield. I want to build a robot with a 12V DC motor
that will change speed based on how high it is lifted above the controller.
I think I need to purchase the altimeter chip and the wireless shield.
How hard will it be to program the motor to respond to the change in
height? Can I do this with the micro Arduino? Do I need to buy anything
else?
Thanks,
Paul
www.igaaks.com
Andy Barnhart
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM, paul celmer <pce...@earthlink.net> wrote:
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Pete Soper
The application for the room at Western Wake regional library in Morrisville that I hand-delivered days ago still hasn't been processed. I just got off the phone with someone who really wanted to help, but he couldn't, as and the two people in charge of this highly complex and secretive process are not at the library today.
So, with respect to a temporary joint meeting in Morrisville this Monday night: FERGETABOUTIT.
I'm out of ideas. Sorry.
-Pete
On 04/26/2013 09:04 AM, Carl Nobile wrote:
Hey all,
I'm fairly new to the area, so I'll have to depend on you guys to find a place. We may want to find something for the sixth of May even if it is temporary, and make the first order of business a discussion on a permanent place from all the suggestions that have been made. What I fear most is inaction causing the club will die.
Carl
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Grayson Randall <gra...@insightrobots.com> wrote:
Very little is required of you by the IEEE.
I expect that the TAR officer(s) would need to join IEEE. There is an EXCOM (Executive Committee) meeting once a month that the officer(s) are urged to attend. This EXCOM meeting is where all the IEEE chapters and committees meet to do global planning and resource discussions.
For the members, IEEE does not require that you are an IEEE member to attend IEEE meetings. We would hope that the TAR members would join IEEE, but it is not required. That would be totally at the option of the individual. It would not impact anybody from attending the meetings.
There is no reason that we cannot establish the meeting night as the first Monday of each month as you have done for years. I would be glad to do that.
As an IEEE group, the IEEE will cover the refreshments for meetings. There is also significant funding opportunities available for projects, especially if it is STEM related.
And as an IEEE member, there is a multitude of resources and benefits available to the group and to individual members. http://www.ieee.org/index.html
I know I am biased…. But I see little downside and significant upside to merging these groups. I look forward to working with you all to answer any concerns.
Grayson Randall
IEEE ENCS Robotics and Automation Chapter Chair
IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy
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Subject: Re: [TAR] Need a new meeting space - any suggestions?
I think this is a plausible idea. Perhaps the question would be what would IEEE need in return?
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Grayson Randall <gra...@insightrobots.com> wrote:
Here is another option to consider.
I am chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Chapter. Our chapter covers NC from RTP to the coast. The IEEE has 400,000 members world-wide and 3200 here in our section.
http://www.ieee.org/index.html International
http://sites.ieee.org/encs/ Local
http://www.ieee-ras.org/ Society
I would like to suggest that TAR and other related groups are welcome to merge with the IEEE ENCS Robotics and Automation chapter.
Some reasons to consider IEEE R&A as a new home:
- We have lots of resources we can draw on from IEEE local, regional, and international.
- We have access to scheduling, web-site, teleconferencing, space resources that we can use
- We have a local chapter and an international Society focused on robotics.
- The society has international conference, papers, and speakers we can access.
- The local chapter has access to funding from local, regional, and international groups in the IEEE
- We have access to all our members including industry and University experts in the field
- IEEE region has a yearly robotics contest for all Universities in the Southeast US.
I have always thought that TAR and IEEE R&A has considerable overlap in their mission and goals. Maybe this is a way to bring those groups together. The local IEEE chapter has not been as active as I would like and this would be a great way to get the local IEEE chapter more activity and increase the resources available to the TAR members. A win-win for both groups. I would be excited to discuss this option with others. Just let me know what questions you have.
Grayson Randall
IEEE ENCS Robotics and Automation Chapter Chair
IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy
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Subject: Re: [TAR] Need a new meeting space - any suggestions?
And another suggestion that I hate to even mention, but perhaps this is a good time...
Much of the same people are in the arduino/open-embedded club and the robotics club and there is a lot of similar interest - not everyone in the robotics club are building robots, and some in the arduino club are building robots.
Perhaps it is time to merge the two together... or, fold one into the other...
This is especially true if we are talking about moving the venue to Durham. We lost several from the move of NCSU -> Durham -> Raleigh, and i suspect we will lose more going to Durham. We are also likely to pick up a few new members, so hopefully it will break even. But as a minimum, the membership will change.
And understand this is coming from one of the two most longest members of the club still attending (Ken Boone being the longest and beating me out by about 2 years). So there is a lot of history in this club, stretching back over 20 years now... but technology has changed, our interest has changed, and now this new change is being forced upon us.
Should we consider this? We could still have the www.triangleamateurrobotics.org website URL and point it to a page within the splatspace.org domain so all links to it will still find our new place. However, we would be considered another area of interest of a larger organization - with the end goal that we can help them by bringing in additional members, and they can help us by bringing in new members...
Thoughts? Objections?
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Phillip Rhodes <motley....@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Rodney Radford <ncgad...@gmail.com> wrote:
Who do we have in the club that is already a member at Splatspace, orconsidering a membership there now? And how many like the idea ofasking them if we could meet there?
Most of you probably don't know me, as I have yet to actually make a TAR meeting, but I am a member of the group, as well as a Splatspace member. I do think Splatspace would be a natural fit for TAR. I also think the members there would be happy to have TAR meet at the space, as hosting User Groups of various sorts is something we've always done a fair amount of.
Unfortunately, I can't volunteer to be the (sole) dedicated "Splatspace host member" as my job has me on the road so much, and I'll be out of town many times when meetings are happening. I would, however, be willing to be one of a group of potential Splat hosts, and if we can drum up one or two more, I think it could be arranged.There may be some other Splat members in the group as well, although I don't know who all they are offhand. Perhaps someone else will chime in.
In any case, a good next step, if TAR wants to pursue this, would be to post something to the Splatspace Google Group, and/or just have one or more TAR representatives come to the next Tuesday night "Open Meeting" at the Splat and talk to the members there.
Cheers,
Phil
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Shannon Code
The earthfare in briar creek has a meeting space that's usually available. I'll have to dig up details but I was looking at it as an alternative to my DC919 meetup. Stay tuned.
Jason Stewart
Pete Soper
thought this Monday is the 6th (and so, apparently, did the library guy
I phoned when I said ".... reservation for this Monday the 6th.")
So there's still time left to get the Morrisville library room and put
out proper notice.
Alternatives should naturally get consideration. The Morrisville option,
if it pans out, is most definitely a one shot deal.
Sorry for the confusion.
-Pete
Paul Celmer
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Pete Soper
Thanks everyone for the help!
Another question--Has anyone developed a software interface that would allow dynamic control of voltages at the pins?
In other words, could I use a slider or keyboard input to instantly change the output voltage of one or more pins?
If you have a more typical Arduino here's a nice survey: http://embeddednewbie.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-of-arduino-dac-solutions.html
-Pete
Thanks!
Paul
paul celmer
> I have figured out how to control a moter with my arduino uno and the
> motor shield! Has anyone tried any of the Apps that allow you to
> control Arduino via the iphone? I like Ardumote, and it works with the
> ethernet sheild, but I am wondering if it works with the wifi shield.....
Thanks,
Paul
>
Tom Karches
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