MEETING CHAT
01:00:40 Steven Kaehler: Annual Vintage Radio Swap Meet tomorrow, Sunday, August 16, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Edmonds-Woodway High School parking lot located at 7600 212th St. SW in Edmonds, WA (just north of Seattle). Admission and parking are free.
01:01:48 Doug Bell: https://psararadio.com/?page_id=708
01:02:46 James Newton MassMind.org: If anyone knows anyone in socal or gets down here, SuperCon 2026 has been announced.
https://hackaday.com/tag/supercon
01:03:04 James Newton MassMind.org: Tickets are $300 and something. But that includes food for 2 and a half days.
01:06:26 Steven Kaehler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwG451K62oE
01:08:44 Steven Kaehler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shb_uZUFSzM
01:12:38 Gordon Greene’s iPad: Why is it necessary to be barefoot?
01:15:16 Steven Kaehler: Good question. I’ve seen these folks walking around on the course.
01:16:56 Gordon Greene’s iPad: Fair points. I was thinking it was to show humility or something.
01:18:41 Steven Kaehler: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lvMdFmBO6pw
01:21:16 Steven Kaehler: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u6GYy9Ai_Mo
01:26:16 Steven Kaehler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdNqmxu_V4A
01:33:31 James Newton MassMind.org: Sorry if I was noisy there. I forgot to mute before walking out.
01:37:11 James Newton MassMind.org: Welcome!
01:45:11 James Newton MassMind.org: Wow. That’s really complex.
01:45:59 James Newton MassMind.org: In OnShape, you mentioned parametric design. Was that via the dialog boxes to put in new measurements? Or did you use the built in scripting language?
01:53:57 James Newton MassMind.org: goBILDA is very impressive. I have a start on an arm using them that a friend helped me make and it’s amazing.
01:54:57 Steven Kaehler: Are all of the team members high school students?
01:57:21 Steven Kaehler: Wow! Awesome to see young people diving in so deeply.
02:01:23 rober: Are you allowed to use system such as ROS?
02:03:28 Calvin – 18225: I don’t think so, I believe that the FTC robot controller app/SDK is required for the control hub and they check if it is on the latest version at inspection.
02:06:22 Calvin – 18225: I don’t think we are working on any SRS challenges right now as of my knowledge.
02:06:26 James Newton MassMind.org: The guys doing the SRS Pop Can Challenge should ask this team for help. LOL.
02:10:19 James Newton MassMind.org: Sensor fusion!
02:10:21 Steven Kaehler: Is there an AprilTag on each side of the robot?
02:11:52 Calvin – 18225: Not on the robot, but there are several Apriltags around the field that the robots could use for navigation
02:12:20 Andrew Sun-Zhuang – FTC 18225: the Apriltags each have a specific ID so the robot knows which one it is looking at. This allows for accurate localization.
02:15:21 Steven Kaehler: FTC TEam 18225 High Definition website – https://ftc18225.nw1robotics.org/
02:19:54 rober: How about an electronics team
02:20:20 Aavyan Shah: Electronics is often packed into hardware.
02:21:36 Andrew Sun-Zhuang – FTC 18225: Also since the Mechanical team CADs and builds the robot they have a better gauge of where the electronic and wires should go
02:31:57 Bennett: Thank you so much for sharing and meeting here, I’m new to robotics and really enjoyed this
02:32:08 Andrew Sun-Zhuang – FTC 18225: Thank you for having us!