Portland Area Robotics Society
Regular Meeting Minutes
December 5, 2009,
10:30AM
Agenda
1. Welcome – Fred Stevens
2. Club
Business
3. Announcements
4. Show and Tell
5. Lunch at Blondies
Pizza
Club Business
The annual meeting required by
the PARTS Bylaws for the election of officers was not held last month. The Election for 2010 club officers was held
this month instead. The Bylaws had been
reviewed by Pete Skeggs and it was determined that
the only club officers necessary are President and Secretary. The Treasury Position will be retained by the
President.
By unanimous vote of all members
present the following people were elected.
PARTS President – Pete Skeggs
PARTS Secretary – Fred Stevens
PARTS Treasurer – Pete Skeggs
CONGRATUALTIONS to the 2010 PARTS
executive team!
Announcements
1. A group
of PARTS members are meeting every other week on Monday Nights at the Portland Techshop electronics lab in conjunction with Open Techspace. These
meetings are focused on a group project.
The project being worked on is Swarm Robot. The idea is to develop a low entry level robot
that can act as part of a greater whole or swarm with other robots designed in the
same manner. The group intends to
develop a communication standard for inter-robot communication and minimal reference
design from which anyone can build robot for the swarm. If your interested,
come check out the swarm……
at Open
Tech Space
2. PARTS
will be revamping the website to make it more friendly
for electronics communication amongst the group. The website will be modeled after Dorkbot PDX. We will
be migrating everything soon so check back……
3. Some great
resources for news of robotics development and interesting stories
Show and Tell