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| − | A meetup series for folks interested in building or working with or actually building robots and robotic technology. Robo-makers events include all aspects of robot technologies (hardware, software, applications, data), practical experiences of building and working with robots, help in getting started with new projects, and other similar things. | + | A meetup series for folks interested in building or working with or actually building robots and robotic technology. Robo-makers events include all aspects of robot technologies (hardware, software, applications, data), practical experiences of building and working with robots, help in getting started with new projects, and other similar things. Everyone is welcome, both makespace members and nonmembers. |
Get in touch with [Laura laura.james@makespace.org] or Steve or Mat if you can offer a talk/demo/workshop/training/whatever! We aim to run these meetups roughly monthly. They usually happen on a weekday evening around 7pm, often Monday, and are quite informal with plenty of time for questions, demos and chit chat. | Get in touch with [Laura laura.james@makespace.org] or Steve or Mat if you can offer a talk/demo/workshop/training/whatever! We aim to run these meetups roughly monthly. They usually happen on a weekday evening around 7pm, often Monday, and are quite informal with plenty of time for questions, demos and chit chat. | ||
Revision as of 09:45, 15 April 2016
A meetup series for folks interested in building or working with or actually building robots and robotic technology. Robo-makers events include all aspects of robot technologies (hardware, software, applications, data), practical experiences of building and working with robots, help in getting started with new projects, and other similar things. Everyone is welcome, both makespace members and nonmembers.
Get in touch with [Laura laura.james@makespace.org] or Steve or Mat if you can offer a talk/demo/workshop/training/whatever! We aim to run these meetups roughly monthly. They usually happen on a weekday evening around 7pm, often Monday, and are quite informal with plenty of time for questions, demos and chit chat.
Potential future talks / demos / etc (add your name/details if you are able to help organise any of these!)
- modding ride-on cars for disabled children
- machine vision
- ??
Robo-maker people (add your name if you'd like folks to know you are into robots and robotics - this may be helpful for makespace members seeking collaborators etc)
- Laura
- Mat C
Meetups so far
- first meetup - Mat Cook on Dogtooth Tech, talking about Robots past present and future. [7 Dec 2015 http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/226589584/]
- Rob K on combat robots [1]
- Simon Birrell on Robot OS [21 Feb 2016 http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/228382234/] complete with demos! Here's [the slides http://www.artificialhumancompanions.com/robo-makers-deep-learning-robot-demo-ros-and-robotic-software/]
- Brian Corteil on Raspberry Pi robots and PiBorg [21 March 2016 http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/228382170/] Here's [the slides https://github.com/Corteil/Talks]
