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Hey guys and gals, after my previous hobby became marked as terrorism by the FAA (Flying FPV), I have moved back into robotics. Some of you have seen my posts concerning a personal robot project.
Anyhow, I started a meetup group in Seattle, the first meeting is this weekend. 24 members in the first week, not bad, and I am hoping it continues to grow. The group will be very much software focused, as the last thing I want to do is be another Arduino/3D printing group. Sure we will talk hardware, but usually only in context of what software it is running and why. I personally find the existing robotics groups barely touch on software.
Location is downtown Seattle, and all flavors are welcome.
Oh man, this is pretty cool. I visit Seattle every few months...do you accept out-of-towners in your club?
I could bring Petri (my Pleo) with me? As long as you promise not to disassemble Petri.
Chris
Call me silly, but I have a feeling you would be a guest speaker. Other than that, of course you and anyone else are welcome any time. The meeting room I generally use holds 15-20 comfortably, so I state attendance to 12 + guests, but if need be we have some larger rooms here as well, I can only hope we grow into them. Send me an email, and let me know your schedule next visit to town. (spiked3 at gmail).
What a fantastic idea! I would love to be able to attend this kind of setup, but unfortunately I live far, far away (and there aren't any facilities like this around where I live).
Would it be possible to video record the meetings and then make them available offline? Obviously there would be costs involved in this, but I'd be happy to pay for any expenses. If downloadable material is too cumbersome to setup, how about a no-frills mail order DVD?
Lot's of potential Ideas Nathan. I actually have come to know the local black magic camera and internet streaming company, from the adobe premiere meetup group I am a member of. They use
In the meantime, I do have a name reserved www.ec-robotics.org if there is a need, as well as my own mostly robot site www.spiked3.com where I will post any material I get.
Good to hear! Keep us all posted on any further developments regarding meeting access. I, for one, would really appreciate the benefit that this type of experience would bring.
Well, I have to be honest (its my nature and probably why I didn't do so well on the death star), but the weekend and this meetup didn't really go anywhere like I had hoped.
First on Saturday (at Seattle robotics) I was told I didn't know anything about RC (I think some of you know that is probably not the case), by a person who didn't even have their tires on correctly.
Then my meetup, I was told anything but an Arduino was a poor choice, and my Windows robot with a Netduino was the wrong way to do it. And that C++11 doesn't exist. I was confused on how code gets transformed into bytes to run on a computer (of which an Arduino is really the only true one). avr-gcc isn't a compilerDamn, I wasted the last 35 years as an operating systems programmer I guess. Actually the person arguing this eventually apologized, but it got a little heated in the process. I tried tactfully to indicate I was not asking if it could be done, but if anyone had done it (C++11 on an arduino), and the argument I was getting was it could not be done (which I knew was incorrect, http://stackoverflow...ram-the-arduino). I quit being tactful after a while.
Oh and over half no shows.
Sigh, at the moment, I give up. Maybe I'll recover (my spirits) in a week or 2, but for the moment, seriously thinking of switching to knitting.
So I guess that means I won't be getting any video recordings of your affronts (ahem... efforts)?
Sorry to hear that it did not go down so well. It sounded like many weren't there to grow, but to agro instead. I guess it doesn't come as a huge surprise, really, since I've seen my fair share of egoism and self-aggrandisement within the software community as well. Sadly, many of this type adroitly tout their cross-discipline expertise while at the same time being blissfully unaware that their behaviour satisfies the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Please don’t give up, though. Many here can still learn from your expertise and there are undoubtedly a plethora of matters where your contribution will be both substantive and welcome.
Excellent! The group is getting lots of members, but no one is signed up for the current meeting.
I am hoping that is just a matter of it being nice weather, and people have better things to do.
Hopefully attendance will pick up up as Seattle weather moves in.
So, what kind of learning event would interest you? I would like it to be a step beyond,in a robotics direction, what you can get at the many existing Arduino(Netduino) / make groups.
BTW this month I am presenting my robot, as it is so far. I had a small breakthrough tonight, so it might actually be moving on its own by the meeting.
Great, I will be checking those events out. I hope to clear my calendar enough to be able to go, I am very interested.
Besides robotics, it would be cool to learn about other project types - like home automation, monitoring, other IoT scenarios. Personally, I am just learning basic stuff - how to use a temp / humidity sensor, how to use LCDs for output, so that I can use these building blocks for future projects.
So I will try to make it to as many of these as possible.
