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?