Portland Area Robotics Society

Regular Meeting Minutes

May 3, 2009, 10:30AM 

Agenda

1. Welcome – Fred

2. Show and Tell

3. Lunch at Blondies Pizza

Show and Tell

Mark Gross – Brought and showed off his Line maze robot and talked about progress. Has his PCB for the Teensey++ MCU.

Larry Ossowski – Brought in a Pololu 3Pi bought on sake for $60. He also showed off some Matrix LED Displays for Holiday animations next year.

Brett – LED Bike light. He is building an oximeter. Shine a Red LED and a IR LED through finger Photodiode on the other side. Showed his tracked robot.

Steve – Showed a Jewel Thief Circuit. Designing a business card for Maker Faire

Monty – OSU Having a competition in Mid May.

Ken Friberg – Discussed AIAA Conference on UAV’s.

Paul Burrell – Report from FIRST Nationals in Atlanta

Jeff – Gave a report on his Compiler project – working on an assembler

Pete Skeggs – Ugobe (Pleo) Bankruptcy. Wheel Commander. Encoder products – Showed his new Unicoder which is based on hall effect sensors. http://www.nubotics.com

Scott Winner – Beam Robots. BEAM Mouse. Solar array. Domes from electronic Goldmine

Pete Skeggs – Since there is no PDXBOT for 2009, Pete proposed an Outdoor Challenge in August?