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RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – April 2, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
MiKe Williamson – ⭐
Doug Paradis – ★

Robie’s Highlights:
• Eclipse Discussion.
• Mike Williamson demo of data fusing ToF array sensor wall distance info and odemetry.
• Discussion on addressing multiple I2C devices with same address.
• Karim Virani discussed efforts to revive one of the large rover robots purchased surplus last year.
• Doug Dodson showed the ‘leather armor’ robot holder vest for his Robodog.
• Discussion on new non-wheeled class in Quick Trip competition this June 1.
• Doug P. showed extraction of line following path from tile using Maix Bit Camera.
• Discussion on basic beginner low cost robot used in prior DPRG beginner classes.

When

• April 2, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – March 26, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
No stars rewarded this week

Robie’s Highlights:
• Discussion about DPRG’s new Discord server.
• Issues with IMU intergration with ROS2 Navigation stack – Mike Williamson
• RoboMagellan robot CAD update – Jon Hylands
• Replication of Jon’s Universal Robot Controller (URC) – Doug Paradis
• Files for Jon’s URC case

When

• March 26, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

DPRG Monthly Meeting: KABAM Robotics Presentation – March 23, 2024

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Saturday, March 23 at 10:00 AM CDT, DPRG will have a presentation from Rob Salsman, KABAM Robotics VP, who will talk about their security robots CO-LAB (indoor) and HALO (outdoor).

KABAM Robotics is a Singaporean company specializing in security and surveillance robots. They are ramping up their US activities, and also starting to hire engineers to be based here. This could be a great networking opportunity if you’re looking for work in Robotics!

You can look at videos of the robots in action on KABAM’s website at https://kabam.ai – The robots have interesting solutions to navigation problems that robot builders try to solve for DPRG’s Roborama contests.

Following the presentation and questions, members are encouraged to bring their projects and robots for a show and tell.

Meeting Videos:
Part 1- KABAM Robotics

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Part 2- Regular Monthly Meeting

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)

When:

  • March 23, 2024
  • 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM CDT – Pizza will be served at lunch time

Where:

  • Dallas Makerspace – North Lobby Classroom (ring DPRG doorbell to be admitted)
  • 1825 Monetary Ln, Suite 104 · Carrollton, TX

Remote:
The meeting is available to remote members and interested parties using the info below.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – March 19, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Mike Williamson – ⭐ ★ (double stars!)
Jon Hyland – ⭐ ★ (double stars!)

Robie’s Highlights

  • Discussion on club’s decision to move to Discord and Google Meet
  • Mike Williamson – 6 can demo using ROS robot
  • Jon Hylands – update on new features to his robot configuator including Google Maps
  • Jon Hylands – show and tell RoboMagellan robot construction
  • Jon Hylands – Alternate fail safe button designs for robot configuator
  • Ray Casler – Brushless gimbel motor PID demo
  • Paul Bouchier – Demo of PiDog
  • Jon Hyland – 4 leg robot demo

When

• March 19, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – March 12, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Paul Bouchier – ⭐
Pat Caron – ★

Robie’s Highlights
• Reminder: Monthly Meeting – March 23 between 10AM-2PM – Guest Speaker from Kabam robotics.
• Mike Williamson – Trouble with odometry pods on new robot.
• Paul Bouchier – PiDog demo.
• 2024 eclipse questions about what filter to use on camera or phone (tapping Doug D. expertise)
• Ray Casler – Brushless motor driver progress
• Brandon Holt – Using M.2 SSD on Raspberry Pi 5
• John C. – Exploration of PID auto tuning
• Pat Caron – Debugging Arduino Zero clone in VScode.

When

• March 12, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – March 5, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Mike Williamson – ⭐
Jon Hylands – ★ ⭐ Double Stars!

Robie’s Highlights
• Mike Willison’s 6-can ROS2 robot demo
• More info on Mike Willison’s ToF 3-8×8 array sensor
• ROS Bag analysis of Mike Willison’s 3-8×8 array sensor by Paul Bouchier
• Show and Tell of Jon Hylands RoboMagellan robot
• Demo of Joh Hylands wearable teleop watch and fail-safe trigger using ESP32 Now
• Details of Waveshare’s new round display (part of Jon’s wearable)
• Pat Caron’s experiences attempting to get openOCD working with Arduino Uno 4
• Ray Casler’s experiences with 12A Makerbase Simple FOC dual brushless ESC.
• Tool recommendation on small electric screwdriver by Jon Hylands

When

• March 5, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – February 27, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Doug Dodgen – ⭐
Tom C. – ⭐

Robie’s Highlights
• Iron Reign’s presentation
• Discussion on GPS-like alternatives for indoors
• Link to site showing the world’s current state of GPS jamming by governments
• Ray Caster – experiments with Aliexpress gimbel motors and controllers

When

• February 27, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – February 20, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
No stars rewarded this week

Robie’s Highlights
• Excellent Tutorial on debugging on PlatformIO by Chris Netter – in meeting video
• Good info on ML on ESP32CAM using tiny ML and Edge Impulse: Drone Workshop Article
• Interesting Simulation Tool: Robot Overlord robot simulation tools

When

• February 20, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – February 13, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Mike Willingson – ⭐

Robie’s Highlights
• Good demostration of balancing robot: Arduino BLDC balancer robot – Tutorial
• Extracting object distance from blob math by Mike Williamson: in meeting video
• More info on 3 arrayed ToF sensors by Mike Williamson: in meeting video
• Excellent PID Tutorial: DC motor PID speed control

When

• February 13, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – February 6, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Mike Willingson- ⭐
Ray Casler – ⭐

Robie’s Highlights
• SeeedStudio Vision AI Module 2: $16 AI Module
• Good CAN Bus Tutorial: Tutorial
• Small Gimbel Motor: $6
• Makerbase SimpleFOC MINI FOC BLDC Motor Controller Board: $4
• Inexpensive MicroPython Board: choose the 405 variant
When

• February 6, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.