Cal Poly Robotics Club

1st General Meeting Fall 08

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:26:16 -0800

Sept 30, 2008 * Introduction of club * Reviewing past and current projects * Announced current officers * Broke off into project discussion groups * IGVC, Roborodentia, Underwater ROV * Took new member sign ups * Announced Barbecue Kick Off

2007-2008 Meeting Minutes

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:13:12 -0800

2007-2008 Meeting Minutes * Winter 4th General Meeting Feb. 19, 2008 * Winter 3nd General Meeting Feb. 5, 2008 * Winter 2nd General Meeting Jan. 22, 2008 * Winter 1st General Meeting Jan. 8, 2008 * Workshop Planning * Fall 4th General Meeting Nov. 6, 2007 * Fall 3rd General Meeting Oct. 23, 2007 * Fall 2nd General Meeting Oct. 9, 2007 * Fall 1st General Meeting Sep. 25, 2007

2008-2009 Meeting Minutes

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:18:50 -0800

2008-2009 Meeting Minutes Fall 1st General Meeting Sep. 30, 2008 Fall 2nd General Meeting Oct. 07, 2008 Fall 3rd General Meeting Oct. 21, 2008 Fall 4th General Meeting Nov. 04, 2008 Fall 5th General Meeting Nov. 18, 2008 Fall 6th General Meeting Dec. 02, 2008

About the Club

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:24:38 -0800

The Robotics Club is an inter-disciplinary club, welcoming students from all majors and all levels of technical knowledge. We are a project-oriented club, and are divided into a number of partially independent project teams, among which members can distribute their time. Projects are begun as members step forward with a proposal that garners enough interest from other members to form a core project team.

BotShop II

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:17:37 -0800

BotShop II Check back later for date, time and place. BotShop II is a follow-up workshop to the first event held during the Fall quarter of 2006 and 2007. We will be using the PolyBot board, so bring one if you have one. If not, we can lend you one to use. Subject to availability, you may also be able to purchase a board. We plan on holding the event in a computer lab, but bringing your own laptop is recommended. Windows is suggested (bundle installer here), but the AVR compiler/toolchain is a…

Botshop Information

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:40:28 -0800

General Info What When The workshop will be held in the first few weeks of Fall quarter. Exact dates and times are still to be determined. Where More Details

1st General Meeting Fall 08

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:22:46 -0800

FAQ

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:51:17 -0800

Robotics at Cal Poly I'm a Senior in High School applying to colleges. What major at Cal Poly would give me the most involvement in Robotics? Robotics is inherently a multidisciplinary field, and people from several fields will be involved with most robotics projects.

7th General Meeting Winter 09

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:06:04 -0800

Jan 06, 2009 * Ordering Announcement * Safety glasses 3.50 * Multimeter 5.50 * Screwdriver 4.50 - Or all 3 for 13 dollars. * Machine Shop Sign-up ME 240 * T-Shirt Contest Voting * Darron's Piece wins * What we want to see change * Want to see older student in Saturday meetings * Approve of google group sections for individual projects * Want to see educational workshops * Want to see the bot shop happen

1st General Meeting Winter 08

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:43:31 -0800

Jan 8, 2008 * Botshop II is this weekend * RoboRodentia - We have two proposed ideas * Garran's Idea * Use omnidirectional wheels * Side claws to grab balls on sides * Flywheel to launch balls * No means of picking up balls on field

8th General Meeting Winter 09

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:50:12 -0800

Jan 20, 2009 * ME 240 Workshop eligibility * Safety glasses 3.50 * Multimeter 5.50 * Screwdriver 4.50 - Or all 3 for 13 dollars. * IRA Money Forms * Start thinking about club positions * Project Updates * IGVC * Vision progress * Learning coding methodology * Sensors are being incorporated

2nd General Meeting Winter 08

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:46:32 -0800

Jan 22, 2008 * RoboRodentia - Think Tank Round I * Design a way to target the hoppers and collect balls * Mechanical arm used to scoop balls from hopper. * Follow tape leading to hopper * Launch balls in to the opposing side * Fire with a cannon * Fire with a compressor system to launch the ball * Two spinning wheels acting as a launcher

9th General Meeting Winter 09

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:44:26 -0800

Feb 03, 2009 * IGVC Team - Announced that they will not compete in official competition * Creation of around the campus competition * Shooting for end of quarter * Engineering Student Council * Student Engineering week coming up * Ultimate Frisbee competition

3nd General Meeting Winter 08

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:29:22 -0800

Feb 5, 2008 * PWM Demo by Darron and Patrick * On motors you can either turn them on or off. * H-bridge is 4 switches connected to the motor to control polarity and thus direction of motor. * Adding additional inverters, such as the PolyBot board has, makes it impossible to short

10th General Meeting Winter 09

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:52:25 -0800

Feb 17, 2009 * Shirt design finished and shirts ordered * To order shirt talk to Elliot * New Room For Next Quarter * Competition between IGVC vehicle and barbie car * Need to create competition rules * Preview of PolyBot 2.0 by Darron * DC Motor Info * Coding tips for PolyBot

4th General Meeting Winter 08

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:17:54 -0800

Feb 19, 2008 * Roborodentia team updates * Differential Team * Not much progress * Needs to purchase parts * Figuring out where to place firing mechanisms * Omniwheel Team * Establishing weekday meeting times * Working on shooting and motors

11th General Meeting Winter 09

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:30:15 -0800

Mar 03, 2009 * Roborodentia - Teams are progressing well * Bowling Tomorrow night 7-9 Mustang Lanes * Open house April * Volunteers for 12 - 1 monitors * New Room 10-231 * Officers are going to be elected next quarter

First General Meeting

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:48:27 -0800

Sep. 25, 2007 * [Overview of Club Projects] * Introduced officers * Past projects * Spybot * Won first in Robomagellan last year * Donated to club * Plan to reenter into Robomagellan this year * Hexxor * Long time project * Needs work on programming and walking

1st General Meeting Fall 08

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:27:56 -0800

2nd General Meeting Fall 08

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:56:47 -0800

Oct 7, 2008 * Robotics Senior Project * Solar Field Trimmer * Contact: PolyRobotTrimmer@gmail.com * Engineering Student Council Representative * Travis Shared information about positions * Robotics Email Lists * Current Project Lists Sign ups

Second General Meeting

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:04:56 -0800

Oct 9, 2007 Competitions Members are free to join our team in each of these competitions. Sign up for the mailing list for the competition you are interested in to learn more. * IGVC * Involves EE, CSC, CPE, and ME * Vehicle Configuration * Dimensions * Emergency stops * Use GPS

3rd General Meeting Fall 08

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:45:18 -0800

Oct 21, 2008 * Project Reports * IGVC * Working on Vision System * Barbie Car * Steering System * Underwater ROV * Revamping whole project * BBQ Planning * Contact Kent at kdwillia@calpoly.edu * Boyscouts * Broke Off into Project Planning Groups

Third General Meeting

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:41:12 -0800

Oct 23, 2007 * Shirts are coming by this Friday, the 26th * We will be making a new sandwich board * Ties with Cal Poly emblem will be sold at the Campus Market * Project meeting times will be going out shortly for first meeting times * Professor Chris Clark gave a presentation

4th General Meeting Fall 08

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:20:08 -0800

Nov 04, 2008 * UROV Project Pitch * John gives PowerPoint presentation * Robot Suit * Needs more people for progress * IGVC * Vision System - Webcam bought for testing * Sonar Sensors - Testing * Meetings are opposite Tuesdays of Robotics meetings

Fourth General Meeting

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:11:52 -0800

Nov 6, 2007 * Shirts have arrived and were handed out to paid members * Will explained the basic line following code * The next day for botshop will be the first weekend of next quarter. We will be doing programming * Our project teams got together to discuss times we could all meet.

5th General Meeting Fall 08

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:29:16 -0800

Nov 18, 2008 * Representative from JPL Presentation

6th General Meeting Fall 08

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:45:42 -0800

Dec 02, 2008 * T-shirt Designs for next year * Individual presentations * Brainstorming * Review of past quarter * Robot Suit * Needs someone to take it over * Underwater ROV * IGVC * Vision tracking - Looking for vision tracking software * Navigation - Mapping structure

Club Logos

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:38:00 -0800

Here are some logos for the club. We need to decide on a logo for our new T-shirt design. Logos that aren't used on the T-shirt will still be useful on the website and for general use on club literature. Jason Maggard's Logo Please post! Ryan McCarty's Logo Patrick's brother designed this logo from scratch in Adobe Illustrator. He can modify/improve it if necessary. We're still not sure what color to make the shirt and logo. Please post any feedback that you have regarding the objects used…

Meetings

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:05:11 -0800

We have two types of meetings; we hold general meetings every other week, and project work days every Saturday. Come see what we're doing! The best way to find out more about all of our current projects is to come to both types of meetings and talk with the team members.

4th General Meeting

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:11:08 -0800

4th General Meeting 11/06/2007 * Hand out T-shirt * Introduction to basic coding of PolyBot Board

Workshop Planning

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:50:34 -0800

Workshop Planning * Someone should talk to the dean about making this even a community service opportunity * We need about six people per day to act as lab instructors 2007-2008 Day 1: Polybot board assembly * An inexperienced person should assemble to board first, to find any problems with our instructions

Past Club Meeting Schedule 2007 - 2008

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:38:07 -0800

Meeting Schedule Fall 2007 Meeting Date Topic Presented By Presentation Slides September 25, 2007 Introduction, sign-ups, T-shirt design selection, goals for the quarter Officers [Overview of Club Projects] October 9, 2007 Botshop, discuss potential competitions to enter, form project teams Officers October 20, 2007 Botshop! Officers October 23, 2007 Dr. Chris Clark's research in the field of autonomous systems Dr. Chris Clark [Prof. Clark's Presentation] November 6, 2007 …

Parts Pool

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:48:35 -0800

What is it? The parts pool is a service of the Cal Poly Robotics Club to help save money on small (or large) part orders from popular distributors like Digi-Key. Think carpool, but instead of saving money on gas, we are saving money on shipping! How It Works * Check this page for order announcements. Dokuwiki provides two cool ways of doing this easily. You can use the RSS feature which notifies you of all the latest changes to the site (check out Google Personalized Home if you are not alr…

Club Projects

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:06:05 -0800

Botshop * BotShop Manual -- BotShop User Manual * BotShop II Active Projects * IGVC -- Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition entry * X3P -- Experimental Pink Plastic PowerWheels * Underwater ROV II -- “Fire under the Ice” Competition * RoboMagellan -- RoboMagellan Competition entry, dubbed “SpyBot” * Hexor -- Six-legged walker * Sensor Motes -- ME/CPE Senior Project: Wireless Sensors * RoboRodentia 2009 -- Entry for IEEE-CS's RoboRodentia Competition during Open House (in A…

Cal Poly Robotics Club Homepage

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:35:01 -0800

[:cprc_logo.gif?nolink|Cal Poly Robotics Club] 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, sometime…

Welcome to the Robotics club store

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:16:29 -0800

Welcome to the Robotics club store Here you can support Club Shirt 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. [?200]

Website TODO List

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:09:37 -0800

* Gallery - I want a gallery that keeps images grouped in folders. Easy for members to browse, create new albums, upload images, add comments. * Gallery 2 * Coppermine * Are there any other alternatives we should consider?

Wiki Statistics

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:02:42 -0800

Usage Statistic Value Number of wiki pages Top Ten Contributors to the Wiki

X3P Project

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:50:41 -0800

Experimental Pink plastic PowerWheels The Beginning It started off as a random idea: use a kid's toy as an autonomous vehicle platform... The car has 2 powerful rear wheel drive motors, running on an included 12V battery, and two steerable front wheels that have been mechanically connected to a windshield wiper motor for turning. The platform has a generous weight allowance of about 100lbs, plenty of capacity for additional battery power and electronics. It is easily machined, being almost e…