Meeting Chat
00:30:52 Robert: Bot Oblivion 2025 at Gem State Gaming Convention Idaho Robot Combat League is hosting “Bot Oblivion” in partnership with Gem State Gaming Convention on Saturday July 19th, 2025. https://www.robotcombatevents.com/events/4646
00:31:16 Robert: The MATE ROV Competition Washington – Pacific Northwest Regional 2025 Regional Date: May 10, 2025
Location: Federal Way, Washington
00:33:33 Robert: Would love to know the video link for previous meetings on getting started with Arduino.
00:33:41 Chas: SRS-Robothon Shop | Redbubble
00:33:52 Robert: If they are up on the internet
00:34:27 James Newton: Where is the presentation schedule? The list of who is scheduled in the future? I’ve seen it before but I can’t for the life of me find it now.
EDIT: Found it, it’s actually in the calendar now:
Lot’s of broken links on the site.
00:35:01 James Newton: e.g. on this page:
“Schedule and Venue” is a 404
00:35:59 James Newton: This page
says “No Results Found” but there are future meetings, right? Or are those not “events”? Maybe a link to the meetings page from that page?
00:37:32 john: https://www.youtube.com/@Build-It-Arduino link to Arduino recordings
00:38:17 James Newton: Reacted to “https://www.youtub…” with 👍
00:39:57 Robert: https://www.kitsapcreate.org/Staging2/upcoming-events/
00:40:24 Robert: Unfortunately same date as Robothon
00:42:54 James Newton: For people who love RC earth movers, and (sort of) robots:
00:45:19 James Newton: This guy is digging out his basement one tiny scoop at a time. Combined hobby and home improvement.
https://www.youtube.com/@LilGiantsConstrCo
00:50:04 James Newton: I managed to print a pulley… that’s it.
00:50:12 James Newton: 3 actually… but 2 were wrong.
00:50:24 James Newton: So really nothing to share.
00:51:08 James Newton: I did a little on jerk limited motion, but there is a long way further to go.
00:54:10 Luke Rivera: Yes sir hang on
00:54:23 Luke Rivera: Let me turn on my mic
00:59:04 Robert: https://www.printables.com/contest/439-experiential-robotics-challenge
01:05:22 Steven Kaehler: https://eagleman.com/
01:05:43 Robert: https://all3dp.com/2/3d-printed-robot-print-robots/
01:06:26 Robert: https://www.petoi.com/pages/top-open-source-3d-printed-robots
01:08:51 Robert: https://thinkrobotics.com/blogs/learn/3d-printing-robot-parts-the-future-of-custom-robotics
01:10:43 Robert: The 3D-Printable Robot That Turns Arduino Newbies Into Pros—How? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylc84kAKSxI
01:11:21 James Newton: Dr. Steve Mann made a vest that fed him radar information, and a ton of other things.
01:13:01 Robert: https://www.poppy-project.org/en/
01:13:53 Michael Erberich: Eagleman’s vest and talk on the Umvelt: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_senses_for_humans#t-16816
01:15:16 Robert: 15 Best 3D Printed Robots Projects – An Ultimate Guide! https://store.creality.com/blogs/basics/3d-printed-robot
01:17:19 Robert: https://www.instructables.com/3D-Printed-Robot-Modular-Kit-for-Arduino-YouMakeRo/
01:17:20 James Newton: http://wearcam.org/
01:23:30 James Newton: ABout the ESPs
http://techref.massmind.org/techref/esp-8266.htm
01:23:35 Robert: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/are-there-any-projects-out-the-VddT8J3vT4qKKRUwWFtGmg
01:27:51 Robert: https://hackaday.io/project/158815-m-bitbeam-construction-set
01:29:28 Robert: Yes
01:36:55 James Newton: Great that they started with something very simple, like move right or left.
01:44:39 Steven Kaehler: Link to Elegoo robot kit – https://us.elegoo.com/products/elegoo-smart-robot-car-kit-v-4-0?srsltid=AfmBOooVrwAD57G5WPaefSrYIodtToVRbjwmsESOPSQhtVft_AcxwgYB
01:44:56 James Newton: I’m curious if the mobile robot was closed loop or was just executing the sequence the LLM put out. e.g. was the LLM writing a program (with a feedback path) or a simple series of steps with no feedback.
01:46:07 Steven Kaehler: https://www.numotion.com/products-services/innovative-lifestyle-products/jaco-robotic-arm
01:58:22 James Newton: ANother way of looking at it is that if the high level control is reasoning in cartesian space, the low level control might be or is in joint space.
01:58:37 Michael Erberich: Reacted to “ANother way of loo…” with 👍
02:04:16 James Newton: Good thing that doesn’t happen to us older people… (he says as he types a note while listening to this presentation and taking notes and scrolling social media and monitoring a sd card restore and tweaking some robot code. )
02:04:34 James Newton: Project Based Learning rocks.
02:05:06 Michael Erberich: Reacted to “Good thing that do…” with 😂
02:05:52 James Newton: I teach async classes for UCSD extension and the “gamifying” of the lessons seems to really help. If my students had access to AR, I would push more in that area.
02:11:32 Steven Kaehler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_theory
02:12:48 Madi Babaiasl: https://github.com/madibabaiasl/modern-robotics-course/wiki
02:15:29 James Newton: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.11014
02:15:40 James Newton: Reacted to “https://github.com…” with ❤️
02:31:03 James Newton: Sadly, I have to run. Protest to go to. If I’m in jail, my wife will set up a gofund me for my bail. ,o)