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!
August Meeting Canceled
The August meeting is canceled. We will resume our monthly meetings on Wednesday, September 9th, 2019 at 5:00 PM at River City Labs.
August 11, 2019 at 6:10 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
January’s meeting will be at RCL
Our January monthly meeting will be held on January 9th at the River City Labs. RCL’s NEW location is 7916 N Hale Ave, Peoria. Use the white door on the north side of building. The meeting will start one hour earlier than normal, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. All people interested in hobby robotics are welcome to attend.
January 4, 2019 at 9:59 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
December Meeting Back at Germantown Hills Library
Our December monthly meeting will be held on December 12th at the Germantown Hills Library. It’s location is 509 Woodland Knolls Rd, Germantown Hills, IL 61548. Meeting time is 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held in the meeting room to the left just as you walk in to the building. All people interested in hobby robotics are welcome to attend.
December 5, 2018 at 4:39 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
November Member Meeting at RCL’s new location
Our November monthly meeting will be held on November 14th at the River City Labs. RCL’s NEW location is 7916 N Hale Ave, Peoria. Use the white door on the North Side of Building. Meeting time is 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. All people interested in hobby robotics are welcome to attend.
November 12, 2018 at 5:54 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
October Meeting at Germantown Hills Library
Our October monthly meeting will be held on October 10th at the Germantown Hills Library. It’s location is 509 Woodland Knolls Rd, Germantown Hills, IL 61548. We are holding the meeting here again since it has worked out well last few months. Meeting time is 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held in the meeting room to the left just as you walk in to the building. All people interested in hobby robotics are welcome to attend.
October 1, 2018 at 3:22 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
September Meeting at Germantown Hills Library
Our September monthly meeting will be held on September 12th at the Germantown Hills Library. It’s location is 509 Woodland Knolls Rd, Germantown Hills, IL 61548. We are holding the meeting here again since it worked out well last month. Meeting time is 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held in the meeting room. All people interested in hobby robotics are welcome to attend.
September 12, 2018 at 11:16 am | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
August Monthly Meeting Cancelled
Due to the upcoming Bot Brawl 18 on Saturday the 11th, the August monthly meeting is canceled. If you are not an active member and were thinking of coming to that meeting, come to the Bot Brawl 18 instead. It will be a great time!! The September monthly meeting will be on Wednesday, September 12th.
August 4, 2018 at 4:11 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
July Monthly Meeting at Germantown Hills Library
Our July monthly meeting will be held on July 11th at the Germantown Hills Library. It’s location is 509 Woodland Knolls Rd, Germantown Hills, IL 61548. We are holding the meeting here again since it worked out well last month. Meeting time is 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held in the meeting room. All people interested in hobby robotics are welcome to attend.
July 5, 2018 at 8:48 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
Monthly Meeting Recap 1/10/2018
Meeting notes from the first meeting of 2018.
- Attendees:
- Peter
- Karl
- Bruce Stott
- Mike
- Manish – New member
- Show & Tell:
- Peter had several items:
- He recommended checking out the LG robot fails at CES 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQMtbWwbduA
- He received a communication from Jsumo regarding their latest product, the Xmotion robot controller on indiegogo. This is an arduino-compatible controller with integrated high-current H-bridges. Good for sumo and other small robots. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/xmotion-all-in-one-controller-for-robotics-robot-arduino#/
- He reported that he installed ROS2 on Windows. Basically it works, but is arduous to install and limited compared with ROS for Linux.
- He brought a 3d-printed container that opens only after being manipulated to solve a maze. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:201097
- He brought a book he recently read called Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! by Lori Greiner from Shark Tank. It reminded him that he prefers product design over sales/marketing/business.
- Karl had made much progress on Wheel-E, which he demonstrated.
- He had the Leddar mounted and communicating over CAN with the Raspberry Pi.
- He had dead reckoning functioning based on encoders and a yaw rate gyro.
- He drove Wheel-E around, showing the Leddar point cloud in Rviz. It could show Wheel-E moving in a fixed frame of reference (based on position from dead reckoning), or show Wheel-E as stationary and the point cloud moving around.
- He demonstrated startup of the ROS system, which involves many steps in a particular order. During the meeting he created a launch file that automated some of the steps.
- Here is a link to videos of the robot driving around and its Leddar output displayed on a laptop.
- Mike showed some 3d-printed filament cleaners/oilers that he printed to use up a couple meters of filament at the end of a spool. The interesting thing about them is that they are a hinged box with clasp that print as a single piece. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1692395
- Peter had several items:
- Presentation:
- We ended up talking a lot about Wheel-E, so we saved the technical talk till next time.
January 18, 2018 at 9:14 pm | Announcements, Monthly Meeting Recaps | No comment
Monthly Meeting Recap 12/13/17
- Attendees:
- Peter
- Karl
- Bruce Stott
- Mike
- Show & Tell:
- Karl – Showed progress on Wheel-E CAN bus architecture. He has removed the BotBoard and replaced it with an Arduino and CAN shield. He also added a CAN hat to the Raspberry Pi and created a CAN protocol for communication of Wheel-E parameters. The Arduino reads RC pulses, encoder counts, etc., and transmits them over the CAN bus to the RPi. He brought Wheel-E and demonstrated remote control operation using the new CAN architecture.
- Peter – Shared his 3D printed creations. Among them were a double slider crank mechanism, and a “straight pole curved hole” illusion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm-lCSPBdp4).
- Bruce – Showed his stripped down Battle Wheels bot to be used as a wedge RC Antweight, though it weighs 15.6 oz now without the wedge. There are opportunities to reduce the weight some, but not much.
- Karl – Showed progress on Wheel-E CAN bus architecture. He has removed the BotBoard and replaced it with an Arduino and CAN shield. He also added a CAN hat to the Raspberry Pi and created a CAN protocol for communication of Wheel-E parameters. The Arduino reads RC pulses, encoder counts, etc., and transmits them over the CAN bus to the RPi. He brought Wheel-E and demonstrated remote control operation using the new CAN architecture.
- Presentation:
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- Officer Elections.
- President
- Bruce Stott
- Vice President
- Vacant
- Treasurer
- Peter
- Secretary
- Mik
- Webmaster: Website, Slack & Facebook administration
- Bruce Stott
- Librarian
- Mike
- Other? No.
- President
- Officer Elections.
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December 16, 2017 at 5:56 pm | Monthly Meeting Recaps, Uncategorized | No comment
