Cal Poly Robotics Club Homepage

Welcome to the Cal Poly Robotics Club website! We are a project-based club that exemplifies the Cal Poly philosophy of “Learn by Doing”. We hold general meetings every other Tuesday from 11:00am-12:00 in room 10-231 (Alan A. Erhart Agriculture Building - Map) [Note our new location, starting Spring 2009]. General meetings typically consist of project status updates, forming project teams, announcements about club events, brainstorming, sometimes a presentation or a guest speaker such as a professor or someone from the industry, and of course eating pizza. See the Meetings page for a calendar of upcoming meetings! We have many exciting events planned for this year and are always looking for more ideas.

Starting Fall 2008, we also hold project work days every Saturday from 10:00am-2:00pm at our club room in the Bonderson Projects Center, building 197-102 (Map). This is great time to check out our robots, talk to the team members, and see if you would like to join a project!

The primary focus of the club is on designing/building robots, which is done during the Saturday work days and sometimes smaller project team meetings. All majors and skill levels are welcome to join. You don't need to be highly experienced to join a project team, but you do need to be eager to learn; the point of doing the project is to learn about robotics and to gain experience. Take a look at the Club Projects page to see if you would like to join one of our active projects, or start a new project! See the About Us and FAQ pages for more info on the club and robotics at Cal Poly.

Please see the FAQ page for details.

Didn't find your question in the FAQ or a site search? Then email calpolyrobotics-officers@googlegroups.com to contact the officers and project leaders of the club.

Support the robotics club and look stylish at the same time!
Shirts are available for $18 at any of our club meetings, free with your paid membership to robotics club.

If you are interested in the club, please subscribe to our Google Group using the registration box below. Then you will receive announcements about general club meetings, project work days, club events, new projects that are starting up, and other related topics by email!

Email:
Note: You will get an email from Google that contains a confirmation link that you must accept in order to start receiving emails.
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We also have a Facebook group, but all of our announcements are done via the Google Group and this site.

• General Meetings will be held every other Tuesday at Bldg 10, room 231 from 11am-12pm.
• Build Days will be held every Saturday in the club room: Bldg 197, room 102 from 10am-2pm.
• Seminar Series will be held every other Tuesday in the non-Meeting weeks: Bldg 10, room 231 from 11am-12pm

You can see the Google calendar here.

If you are already a member and want to create or modify pages on this wiki website, you must first:

1. Register for an account.
2. Wait for the webmaster Ethan to approve your account. Or if Ethan is unavailable, you can ask Jon to approve your account.
3. Read the guidelines below.
4. Logout and login again to get the edit privileges.

• Simply go to the page that you want to edit and click the “Edit this page” button at the bottom.
• PLEASE use the Preview button before saving your changes, and use the Save button sparingly. Repeatedly saving the page to tweak the formatting will flood the inbox of the webmaster and anyone subscribed to page changes as well as generate useless revisions in the page history.
• Try to fill in a quick summary of what you changed in the “Edit summary” box before saving. This makes the page revision history easier to look though. Page revision history can be viewed by clicking the “Old Revisions” button located at the footer of the page.
• To create a new page, simply make a link from an existing page to a new unique page name. The link then shows up red because the page doesn't exist yet. Click the red link and create the page.
• Every page should have one and only one H1 heading, at the very beginning of the page. This is important because it defines the title of the page displayed in the titlebar, and links to the page will use it as their link text unless overridden. The rest of the page should use H2 headings for its main sections, and subsequently lower numbers for subheadings.
• Each project should have its own namespace (the namespace is the name before the colon in a link, ie: spybot:start). Namespaces are like a subfolder and help organize content by keeping all the pages and media for a project in one place. The only exception to this rule is that sponsor logos should be uploaded to the sponsors namespace rather than within the project's namespace. Projects can also use sub-namespaces as needed.
• The main page for each namespace or project must be called “start”, and should contain the links necessary to reach the other pages within the namespace.
• To learn the DokuWiki syntax, please refer to the Formatting Syntax page. There is also a link to this reference whenever you are in edit mode.
• Another way to learn the DokuWiki syntax is to look at the formatting used by some of our well established pages and older projects and then copy their formatting code. Copying the formatting style of existing projects helps maintain a consistent style across all pages of the site.
• Before making changes to the site, use the PlayGround page to experiment with the DokuWiki syntax until you understand it.

Please talk to webmaster Ethan if you have any questions.