Category Archives: Meeting Announcements

Monthly Meeting – March 11th

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Meeting is at Noon, on Saturday Mar 11, at the Dallas Maker Space.

Eric Chaney will present an overview of AForge, a C# framework designed for developers and researchers in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. Eric’s presentation will focus on the use of AForge with OpenCV.

Highlighted is a robot using AForge.

As always, remember to bring and share your projects with other members in an informal show and tell session after the presentation.

Club Robot Build Session at theLab.ms

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Mark your calendars! On Thursday, March 16th, DPRG will hold a robot build session at theLab.ms in Plano, TX between 6:30 PM an 11:00 PM. This is the first DPRG event at theLab.ms. The event’s purpose is to help people complete their club or other robot. However if you have another project, please feel free to come work on it and socialize. Everyone is welcome.

Monthly Meeting – Feb 11, 2017

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Ron’s slide deck: slide deck (PDF)



Meeting is at Noon, on Saturday Feb 11, at the Dallas Maker Space.

Ron Grant will  present an overview of the Processing environment, how to add libraries and tools, and show some simple examples. He will illustrate what can be done with the tool without a big commitment in time.

Presentation will cover:

  • Easing into Java from C

  • Basic graphics examples.

  • Two GUI Building Variants.

  • Serial Interface — talking to micro-controllers

  • Video Capture

Highlighted is a joint project with Will Kuhnle  – Interfacing a web cam to Arduino to control a 2D puck grabber arm.

As always, remember to bring and share your projects with other members in an informal show and tell session after the presentation.