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RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – May 14, 2024

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When

• May 14, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CDT).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

How

— New Link —
• Join Hangouts 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.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – May 7, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.

Scott Gibson – ⭐ ⭐ (double stars!)
Paul Bouchier – ⭐
Jon Hylands – ⭐

Robie’s Highlights:
• Scott G. – Demo of new robot “YAR” on Quick Trip and 4-Corners.
• Paul B. – Demo of “PiDog” on Quick Trip.
• Jon H. – Demo of Roz’s gait and working URC, including IMU.
• Joh H. – Discussion and link (see Chat Record) on IMU used on “RAZ” by Pesky Products
• Discussion on using a line laser to assist initial positioning of robot for Quick Trip
• Ray C. – Laser company recommendation https://www.aixiz.com/
• Doug P. – Show and Tell of XT60PW-W20 LiPo battery connector for PCB mounting.

When

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

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – April 30, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.

Karim Virani – ⭐

Robie’s Highlights:
• John K. – Boston Robotics Dogs Dancing Video
• Karim V. – Pioneer robot Demo
• Discussion on DPRG’s measurement answer to the cubit – the soda can (as it is 2 soda cans high)
• Doug P. – Show and tell on 2 Raspberry Pi 4 PCEi bus hats – one for SSD, one for 4 USB-3.2 ports
• Discussion on Pi5 place between with other small computer.
• Discussion on Brady’s Presentation and making PCBs.
• Carl O. – Posting of potential part-time employment position.
• Discussion on Jon’s URC.
• Update on Roborama contest prizes.
• Mike W. – reported that dragging a can around with his claw didn’t impact his odometry.
• Discussion on a celebration for DPRG’s 40th year anniversary (maybe in the Fall).

When

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

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – April 23, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Mike Williamson – ⭐
Doug Dodgen – ⭐

Robie’s Highlights:
• Mike W. showed progress on his version of Jon’s URC
• Doug D. Demonstrated his PiDog
• Jon H. Demonstrated his URC exchangeing data with robot simulator
• Mike W. Demonstrated his robot running 4-corners contest
• Pat C. Discussion on using buck converters to power TTmotors w/ Encoders
• Karim V. Explained his accident that distroyed his Oak-D camera
• Jon H. Showed IMU working on URC
• Doug P. Discussing usefullness of constant current load modules
• Discussion on BNO055, BNO-086, and BNO-088 IMUs

When

• April 23, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CDT).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – April 16, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
No stars rewarded this week

Robie’s Highlights:
• Discussion on Xiaomi CyberGear Micromotor.
• Mike W. showed his copy of Jon’s URC, displayed test pgms
• Discussion on best way to use Git on copies of Jon’s MPY repository
• Discussion on changing parameters in ROS2
• Discussion on how to pay for Aliexpress purchases.
• How to use multiple ST VL53Lxxxx sensors.
• Luxonis’s Roborumble 1 competition recent announcement
• DPRG Google list news
• Discussion on various JST type connectors, and their availablity.
• Show and tell of robots either just started or previously not shared.

When

• April 16, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – April 9, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Doug Dodgen – ⭐

Robie’s Highlight”s:
• Paul B. – Plans for transistion of dprglist to Google Groups
• Eclipes images
• Doug P. – Demo and discussion of ArduCam PiNsight running AI model for locating traffic cones.
• Doug D. – Photos and Videos of RoboDog at Galvastion Steam Punk Convention.
• Jon H. – Discussion on URC and scheduling of meeting for explaining the software (Sat 13th, 9AM CDT).
• Harold P. – Discussion on ZeroTier.
• Ray C. – Described the cellular moduile T-SIM7080GS3 (~$30).
• John C. – Showed a Pico breadboad that he made. Noted that the pinouts of varous Pico boards are different.
• Discussion on Pico.
• Mike W. – Described issue with ROS and the latest OpenMV camera.
• Jack J. – Described phone based interface he is developing for his coffee robot using Flutter.
• Ray C. – Showed new robot platform with brushless motors.

When
• April 9, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

DPRG Monthly Meeting: KABAM Robotics Presentation – March 23, 2024

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Saturday, March 23 at 10:00 AM CDT, DPRG will have a presentation from Rob Salsman, KABAM Robotics VP, who will talk about their security robots CO-LAB (indoor) and HALO (outdoor).

KABAM Robotics is a Singaporean company specializing in security and surveillance robots. They are ramping up their US activities, and also starting to hire engineers to be based here. This could be a great networking opportunity if you’re looking for work in Robotics!

You can look at videos of the robots in action on KABAM’s website at https://kabam.ai – The robots have interesting solutions to navigation problems that robot builders try to solve for DPRG’s Roborama contests.

Following the presentation and questions, members are encouraged to bring their projects and robots for a show and tell.

Meeting Videos:
Part 1- KABAM Robotics

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Part 2- Regular Monthly Meeting

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)

When:

  • March 23, 2024
  • 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM CDT – Pizza will be served at lunch time

Where:

  • Dallas Makerspace – North Lobby Classroom (ring DPRG doorbell to be admitted)
  • 1825 Monetary Ln, Suite 104 · Carrollton, TX

Remote:
The meeting is available to remote members and interested parties using the info below.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – March 19, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Mike Williamson – ⭐ ★ (double stars!)
Jon Hyland – ⭐ ★ (double stars!)

Robie’s Highlights

  • Discussion on club’s decision to move to Discord and Google Meet
  • Mike Williamson – 6 can demo using ROS robot
  • Jon Hylands – update on new features to his robot configuator including Google Maps
  • Jon Hylands – show and tell RoboMagellan robot construction
  • Jon Hylands – Alternate fail safe button designs for robot configuator
  • Ray Casler – Brushless gimbel motor PID demo
  • Paul Bouchier – Demo of PiDog
  • Jon Hyland – 4 leg robot demo

When

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

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – March 12, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Paul Bouchier – ⭐
Pat Caron – ★

Robie’s Highlights
• Reminder: Monthly Meeting – March 23 between 10AM-2PM – Guest Speaker from Kabam robotics.
• Mike Williamson – Trouble with odometry pods on new robot.
• Paul Bouchier – PiDog demo.
• 2024 eclipse questions about what filter to use on camera or phone (tapping Doug D. expertise)
• Ray Casler – Brushless motor driver progress
• Brandon Holt – Using M.2 SSD on Raspberry Pi 5
• John C. – Exploration of PID auto tuning
• Pat Caron – Debugging Arduino Zero clone in VScode.

When

• March 12, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

RBNV – Robot Builders Night Virtual – February 27, 2024

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.
Doug Dodgen – ⭐
Tom C. – ⭐

Robie’s Highlights
• Iron Reign’s presentation
• Discussion on GPS-like alternatives for indoors
• Link to site showing the world’s current state of GPS jamming by governments
• Ray Caster – experiments with Aliexpress gimbel motors and controllers

When

• February 27, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time (CST).
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.