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In the Heart of
Silicon Valley
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About Our Meetings
Meetings are held
on the last Wednesday of the month from January through November. There
is no December meeting. Anyone interested in or curious about robotics
is welcome to attend our meetings.
Our meetings are relaxed and informal. We try to have a featured speaker
and presentation at every meeting. The current year's presentation
schedule is listed below. In addition to the regular meeting
presentation, we run club robotic contests, have special interest group
workshops and enjoy sharing our robotic creations and building
techniques.
2006 Presentation Schedule
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Meeting Location:
Carnegie Mellon West
Building 23
Moffet Field
Mt View, CA
Directions
Meeting Times:
General Mtg. 7:00 PM
Presentation 7:30 PM
SIG Mtg. 7:00 PM
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Jan 25:
"Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge, Dissection of Stanford Robot's Brain"
by Gary Bradski,
Consulting professor at Stanford University and a member of the Stanford DARPA
winning team.
http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/opencv/index.htm
Feb 22:
"Object Recognition using Lowe's SIFT algorithm"
by
Ingolf Sander: Introduction, object recognition approaches, ERSP, Visual Basic demo
John Slater: Scalespace, keypoints
Brandon Blodget: Implementation in FPGA demo
Dave Wyland: Application for robotics
Mar 29:
This whole meeting will be devoted to an
HBRC Member Show-and-Tell
Apr 26:
"Tabletop CNC Demonstration"
by Wayne Gramlich, President HomeBrew Robotics
Club
CNC stands for Computer
Numerical Control of machine tools such as mills and lathes. The cost of a
fully functional table top CNC system is now under $2000. This talk will
provide an introduction to what is involved in bringing up and using a table
top CNC system.
http://gramlich.net/projects/cnc/index.html
May
31:
Parallax Presents
Part 1:
BS2 and the Parallax USB Oscilloscope by
Camp
Peavy
Part 2: A Propeller-based Robot by Al Margolis
www.parallax.com
Jun
28:
Phase 1 - 4th Annual HBRC Challenge
Jul
26:
Trinity Firefighting Robots
: by Bob Allen, Ted Larson and Tony
Pratkanis
Fire
Fighting Home Robot Contest
Aug
30:
Phase 2 - 4th Annual HBRC
Challenge
Sep 27:
'Stix Around the World
by
Gordon Kruberg, CEO Gumstix
www.gumstix.com
Oct 25:
Phase 3 - 4th Annual HBRC Challenge
Nov 29:
Managing Successful
Robotics Teams
by Alan Federman, PhD - Nasa Ames
Associate
http://federman.best.vwh.net/pplan/
Dec: NO MEETING
2007
Jan 31:
"Depth from Monocular Images"
by Ashutosh Saxena, PhD
candidate
Stanford AI Lab, Computer Science Department,
Stanford University
Past Presentation Schedules
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HomeBrew
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