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DPRG Monthly Meeting – Using Git and GitHub and AI Generated Movie – 10/25/2025

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AI Generated Meeting Summary:  Meeting Summary (PDF)

DPRG’s October monthly meeting was held at the Dallas Maker Space on October 25, starting at 10:00 AM.

The meeting this month was a double-header talk.

DPRG member, Paul Bouchier, completed a talk on Git and GitHub originally scheduled for the September meeting. He explained why individual robotics developers would benefit from using these tools. The talk covered how to get started, how to perform frequently used operations, and common scenarios.

Guest, Thomas Messerschmidt, showed and discussed a movie he made using AI. The movie’s plot is an interview with an AI that went badly off the rails. This should be a fun watch.

After a pizza lunch at Noon, the floor was open for a “Show and Tell” session.

    • Scott showed his Robocolumbus robot, Belch
    • Paul & Mark showed improvements to the Makers Pet robot
    • Eric showed improvements to his robot

DPRG Monthly Meeting – Update on Human/Robot Voice Interface Powered by Real-Time LLMs, and Using Git and GitHub – 9/27/2025

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DPRG’s September monthly meeting was held at the Dallas Maker Space on September 27, starting at 10:00 AM.

Slide deck: Slide Deck (PDF)

The meeting this month was a double-header talk.

DPRG member, Karim Virani, followed up last month’s “By your command” presentation by demonstrating his robot, Barney, accepting and acting on spoken natural-language commands. Karim discussed cover insights on prompt construction, what the camera sees, and shared context engineering.

DPRG member, Paul Bouchier, gave a talk on Git and GitHub. He explained why individual robotics developers would benefit from using these tools. The talk covered how to get started, how to perform frequently used operations, and common scenarios.

After a pizza lunch at Noon, the floor was open for a “Show and Tell” session.