Monthly Meeting Recaps
Recaps from the Central Illinois Robotics Club’s monthly meetings. Although we haven’t posted any meeting recaps lately, we are still meeting every month!
January Meeting Information
Our January meeting will be held on Wednesday the 10th at 5:00 PM in person at River City Labs and online via Google Meet. Visitors are welcome to attend in person or online. If you want to attend online, contact Bruce at president@circpeoria.org to get an invite. Standard meeting format will be followed: 1) Show and Tell; 2) Tech Talk- TBD; 3) Planning and Business followed by socializing. Thank you River City Labs for allowing us to meet in your maker space.
January 5, 2024 at 11:56 am | Monthly Meeting Recaps | No comment
December Meeting Moved to the 20th
Announcement: The December meeting will be held on Wednesday the 20th at 5:00 PM in person at River City Labs [RCL] and online via Google Meet. Visitors are welcome to attend in person or online. If you want to attend online, contact Bruce at president@circpeoria.org to get an invite. Standard meeting format will be followed: 1) Show and Tell; 2) Tech Talk- Drone Firmware Introduction; 3) Planning and Business; 4) Socialize. Directions to RCL available on the Membership page.
December 9, 2023 at 6:35 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps | No comment
November Monthly Meeting Moved to the 15th.
Announcement: The November meeting will be held on Wednesday the 15th at 5:00 PM in person at RCL and online via Google Meet. Visitors are welcome to attend in person or online. If you want to attend online, contact Bruce at president@circpeoria.org to get an invite. Standard meeting format will be followed: 1) Show and Tell; 2) Tech Talk- TBD; Course; 3) Planning and Business; 4) Socialize.
November 6, 2023 at 4:55 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps | No comment
October Meeting on 10/11/2023
Announcement: The October meeting will be held on Wednesday the 11th at 5:00 PM in person at RCL and online via Google Meet. Visitors are welcome to attend in person or online. If you want to attend online, contact Bruce at president@circpeoria.org to get an invite. Standard meeting format will be followed: 1) Show and Tell; 2) Tech Talk- Review of Different Techniques of Building a Micromouse Course; 3) Planning and Business; 4) Socialize.
October 5, 2023 at 6:47 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps | No comment
September Meeting
Announcement: The September meeting will be held on Wednesday the 13th at 5:00 PM in person at RCL and online via Google Meet. Visitors are welcome to attend in person and online. If you want to attend online, contact Bruce at president@circpeoria.org to get an invite. Standard meeting format will be followed: 1) Show and Tell; 2) Tech Talk- Initial Review of Pictorus; 3) Planning and Business; 4) Socialize. Details and directions to River City Labs (RCL) are on our meetings page.
Summary:
Show and Tell:
Bruce – 1) Ubuntu version best, LTS or Latest Version? Mike trusts LTS more because it is Long Term Support. Bruce had installed the latest version on his laptop over the weekend. He started the meeting using the latest version Linux distribution on his laptop to host the online portion of the meeting. Fairly quickly the video and audio kept disconnecting from the Google Meet. He switched to the Windows installation on his laptop to host the meeting online. That eventually crashed too. 2) For the Udemy online drone class, he has ordered copter pieces and watched some of the videos. He’s now waiting on the main package of motors and ESCs to arrive.
Peter – 1) Ordered a Photon 2 microcontroller that was on sale for ~$8 with no specific project in mind. He’s had good luck with a Photon 1 in the past and hopes the Photon 2 works well for his next project. 2) Subscribed to Midjourney for one year. Midjourney is an online tool similar to DALL-E. One difference is that one can upload images of themselves and use them. He’s just starting to learn this service.
Tech Talk: An Introduction to Pictorus Online Visual Programming Tool – Bruce
Shared FAQs and the basics of working with Pictorus programs in simulation mode. The tool is in beta mode, is intuitive, requires users to have some familiarity with controls engineering, is geared towards controlling micro-controllers that are running Linux at this time, and holds a lot of promise. Due to not having a specific cable, he was not able to show the flashing process.
Discussion:
Started discussing the possibility of running a Bot Boogaloo in the Spring of 2024. Nothing was decided and the club will continue the discussion online.
August 29, 2023 at 1:50 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
April Meeting To Be Held Online
The April meeting will be held online. We will be using Google Hangouts. All active members have been invited. If you would like to attend, contact Bruce Stott at president@circpeoria.org and he’ll invite you. We will try to follow the same format as a regular meeting: 1) Show and Tell, 2) Tech Talk: Mike will continue his talk on PID control, 3) Business, and 4) Build Session. It’ll be different and hopefully interesting to meet this way.
April 7, 2020 at 5:56 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps | No comment
March Meeting Back At RCL
Our March meeting will be back at RCL, aka River City Labs. They are located at 7916 N.Hale Ave., Peoria, IL 61615. Use the white door on the north side of the building.
And yes, we’ll meet at 5:00 PM. The meeting will last until we decide that we have had enough. Attendees can leave anytime they desire. One does not need to be a member to attend.
Agenda:
1) Show and Tell – Share current projects.
2) Tech Talk – “PID Control” multi-part series with Mike.
3) Business – Plan club activities.
4) Build Session – Work on team or personal projects.
March 11, 2020 at 11:17 am | Monthly Meeting Recaps | No comment
February Meeting Rescheduled
Due to the weather, we rescheduled the February meeting to Wednesday, 2/19/2020. We’ll meet at Germantown Hills Library meeting room at 5:00 PM. The meeting room is to the left as one walks into the library. Agenda: 1) Show and Tell, 2) Tech Talk: Mike will talk about PID Control, and 3) Beloved Business Stuff. There will NOT be a build session due to lack of time and being in a library instead of a shop. We will need to be out by 6:45ish at the latest, though the library would like us out by 6:30. (They close the building at 7:00). Hope to see you there.
February 12, 2020 at 3:41 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
December Meeting Canceled
Due to our schedules becoming more congested and conflicted than normal, we have decided to cancel the CIRC December meeting. The January meeting is on Wednesday, 1/8/2020, at 5:00 PM at River City Labs. See directions on the Meetings page.
December 16, 2019 at 8:59 am | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
September Meeting 9/4/19
We have moved the September meeting 1 week forward to Wednesday, September 4, 2019. Same time. Same place. 5:00 PM at River City Labs, 7916 N.Hale Ave., Peoria, IL 61615. Use the white door on the North, or left, side of the building. Members and non-members are welcome to attend. We will have our show & tell where participants share their progress on different projects, a technical talk where Mike will present the 2nd half of “Using Zumo Line Sensors”, the update on Wheel-E progress, and then everyone’s favorite – Business. If you have questions, contact Bruce at president@circpeoria.org
August 24, 2019 at 9:57 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps | No comment
