APM: TRG Maker SIG Update

David Duncan dduncan at rubackedup.com
Mon Aug 17 05:35:33 PDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:39 AM, <jameschoate at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> Thank you all for participating last night, it looked to me like you all enjoyed yourselves working on projects.
>
> The next Maker SIG meet will be on Aug. 27, 2009.

I didn't catch where the last one was held.

>
> We'll be having the last of the soldering sessions and will follow up in the 7-8pm slot with a 'How to use a Multimeter' for
> Sept. That session will be a review of all we've looked at over the previous three and surface mount techniques.
>
> Regarding the Lego Mindstorms, we ended up with four vehicles for the three RCX controllers. We have a hexapod and two wheeled vehicles. One of them is a little two wheeler that like to pop wheelies (Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth would be proud). Eric also has a basic framework build that we'll be building on. Our next goal is to get better control of the movement and then add bump switches so they can expand their behavior.
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