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DPRG Monthly Meeting – By Your Command, a Human-Robot Voice Interface Powered by Real-Time LLMs – 8/23/2025

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DPRG member, Karim Virani will be sharing his experiences building a voice and video interaction mode for his Pioneer 3 chassis-based ROS2 robot, Barney. The goal is to combine chat and command modes into a responsive unified experience for operators as well as bystanders. According to Karim, there is also a dark side …

Karim will not be focusing on the AI-assisted software development process so much as how to use AIs for this specific purpose. He also has a Git repository at https://github.com/pondersome/by_your_command.

The meeting will be held at the Dallas Maker Space on August 23 starting at 10:00AM. Pizza will be served at Noon.

The meeting will be streamed on Google Meet. Click the quick link below to join the meeting.

• Join Google Meet https://meet.google.com/mwm-imzg-rss
• Join by phone: (US) +1 470-222-8542 , PIN: 334726924

RBNV – Robot Builder’s Night Virtual – 8/19/25

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When

• August 19, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time.
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

How

• Join Google Meet https://meet.google.com/mwm-imzg-rss
• Join by phone: (US) +1 470-222-8542 , PIN: 334726924

Why

• Talk robots & related stuff.
• Make it easier for people to attend DPRG remotely.

Agenda

• Round table – everybody spends a couple minutes telling what projects they’re working on.
• Ad-hoc presentations – Whoever would like to show & tell.
• “Stump the club” Challenges – Ask for help if you’ve hit a roadblock in your project. Somebody in the club can probably get you pointed in a good direction – or even arrange a side bar session to help.

Note: We record a video of these sessions and post them on the DPRG YouTube channel. By joining the meeting, you’re giving consent to be included in the recording.

DPRG Monthly Meeting – Show and Tell – July 26, 2025

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The DPRG monthly meeting for July 2025 was a “Show and Tell” event. Members brought their projects and talked about robots.

It was a golden opportunity to see progress on various projects that you hear about during RBNV and on the Discord channel in person.

Pizza was served at lunch for all attendees.

Moon Day – 7/19/25

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DPRG joined with Iron Reign, team 6832 from the Dallas School of Science and Engineering Magnet, and “Carbonated Potato We are Lovejoy Robotics” team 1082E from Lovejoy HS at the Frontiers of Flight Museum’s annual Moon Day event this July 19. The combined demonstrations were pretty impressive.

Note the specially designed tee shirts that Eric Chaney and John Kuhlenschmidt are wearing in this post’s featured image. Eric designed the shirt especially for Moon Day.
This event is a favorite among the members and gives DPRG an opportunity to give back to the community. Everyone had fun.