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Bill W.

... our parent club was born.
 
The Homebrew Computer Club first met 38 years ago today
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... and here's to the next 38 years!
 
Enjoy,
Camp

Does anyone know where if there is any robotics summer program around Cupertino?

I saw this and thought maybe some of you might be interterested.

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Following instructions from Patrick's Wiki, got rosmake to compile in a workspace, there was one unresolved dependency.
This was using the new Raspian image from Kurt, slightly edited to add workspaces, ssh enabled and various environment variables tweaked to reflect package locations, IP address etc,

All:

We are getting ready to order some gear motors and wheels for
the HBRC 2013 Club Bot class. As I mentioned at the HBRC meeting
on Wednesday, we are going to allow people who wish to tag along
with the order to do so. If you are in the class, your robot kit
fee already includes the needed motors and wheels. This offer is

This came in today's email and I thought some of you might be
interested.

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Jim, K6JMG

Hi,

I ran into the Open Hardware Mobile Manipulator project from Northeastern
University.

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It looks like an interesting project. Has anyone else seen this? Thoughts?

Tully

Check out all three parts at:

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Does anyone know/remember the name of the speaker? I don't see it on
the meeting details on the club website.

--patrick

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Hello,
I think I might have left a battery charger at the Haker Dojo (this months SIG)...
That was over a week ago so it might be gone forever. There is still hope though, maybe someone has it.

Thanks,
Boris.

I am using ROS and RVIZ to experiment with the XV-11 Laser Distance sensor. It seems to work ok, (sees 360 with few blind spots, but it's range seems pretty limited - after about a meter, everything drops off abruptly. Also it seems some things like dark clothing, are invisible to it.

Are there some calibration parameters that need to be tweaked?

All:

There was quite a bit of stuff left behind at tonight's meeting.
There was a nice jacket, a "milk crate" with some electronics
in it, some weird video phone like things, etc. All of this
stuff has been transferred to Google security Lost + Found.
(Alas, I have misplaced the address...)

All:

(Collectively, we totally dropped the ball on getting the
HBRobotics.Org web site updated for tonight's meeting.
We'll do better next time.)

Tonight's meeting is at 7pm. I am 98% sure that it is at
the Google Crusher Meeting room. I'll send out a follow
up message when I get final confirmation.

Nightlife is a great evening event with a special theme - it's Robots
again! and there will be robots roaming around, speakers and maybe even
robot themed cocktails.

The event runs from 6pm -10pm. I'm hoping that someone will coordinate a
Homebrew group (you may already be going!) but I'm also collecting sign ups

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Think life sized Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. Not sure if this will be good or
bad. I'll tape it to watch one day when I'm bored and want to veg out.

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Dave,

Did you use the "extra" USB headers on the front of the mini-ITX? I had
a conflict when I tried them (might not have done it right).

Alan KM6VV

Hi Patrick,

I was looking a your "Head Tracking using OpenCV" blog, and I remembered
that you said something like the ros_arduino_bridge package is being
used on the new PI Robot. Did I get that right?

I had just installed the pi_head_tracking_tutorial (electric) on my
(diamonback, oops?). And thought I'd look for a closer match to using

Congratulations Boris!
You are now published:
 
The Neato Robot and ROS
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Enjoy,
Camp

At the last club meeting we were having a joking discussion about people
making home-made X-Ray machines, and the danger involved.

Anyway, I noticed that someone posted a great Intructable on it...and
the dangers are well documented too.

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