RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – February 27, 2024

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

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

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

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.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – January 30, 2024

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
• Demo of 3 Arrayed ToF sensors by Mike Williamson – in meeting video
• Good info on I2C Clock Stretching Issues on Raspberry Pi: Article
• Excellent book on Raspberry Pi (also addresses I2C Clock Stretching solution): Harry Fairhead (Series of books)

When

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

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – January 9, 2024

Meeting Video:


Chat Record:  Chat Record was not captured.
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Mike Williamson – ⭐

Robie’s Highlights
• ROS2 on Raspberry Pi workshop outlined by Paul Bouchier – in meeting video

When

• January 9, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – January 2, 2024

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.
Jon Hylands – ⭐
Iron Reign – ★

Robie’s Highlights
• ROS2 running in Docker on a Raspberry Pi by Paul Bouchier – in meeting video
When

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