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Welcome to the Seattle Robotics Society!

The Seattle Robotics Society was formed in 1982 to serve those interested in learning about and building robots. We are a non-profit corporation comprised of a diverse group of professionals and amateurs, high school students and college professors, engineers and tinkerers. Our passion is the creation of cybernetic creatures that challenge the old definitions of life, intelligence, and practicality.

See the SRS Programs page for information on the activities that the SRS does to help promote robotics. There is also information there on getting started in robotics.
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  • In even-numbered months (Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec), the meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session (until 5 p.m.). Lunch arrangements for work sessions will be announced at the meeting but feel free to bring your own.

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Meetings

Our regular meetings are at 10 a.m. on the third Saturday of each month at Renton Technical College. See the meetings page for details on location and directions.

Note that it's always a good idea to check this page before the meeting in case inclement weather or a holiday forces a cancellation.

Below are the planned presentations for upcoming meetings. The Presentations page contains an archive of presenters and their topics.

  • February 18, 2012
    • Surface-Mount Soldering Demo - Anyone can solder SMT parts! Richard Greenway will give demonstrations and share hints, tricks, and skills for surface-mount soldering, from prototyping with SMT parts and assembling circuit boards to doing modifications or repairs of assembled boards.
    • The meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session (until 5 p.m.). Bring a project to work on, questions to ask, or just hang out and see what others are working on.
    • During the work session, Richard will have materials for people to practice surface-mount soldering techniques, including a kit that he designed for this purpose. It will provide a nice platform for learning surface-mount soldering, and you'll have a versatile board to use for other projects when you're done. For details and ordering information, please see his site: http://www.fenchurch.org/surface-mount-soldering/.
  • March 17, 2012
    • Creating USB Devices - Lloyd Moore will cover the USB fundamentals needed to implement a USB HID Joystick device using the Cypress PSoC 5 processor. The concepts covered by the talk are common to USB communications in general and can be used with other processors as well as implementing other types of devices.
  • April 21, 2012
    • Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer implemented on an SRS Workshop Robot - Kerry Hammil from Microsoft Research and Michael Ashby of Logic 20/20 will show an implementation of Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer on the SRS Workshop Robot. Gadgeteer is an open-source toolkit for building small electronic devices using the .NET Micro Framework and Visual Studio/Visual C# Express. It combines object-oriented programming, solderless assembly of electronics, and support for quick form-factor construction using computer-aided design.
    • The meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session (until 5 p.m.). Bring a project to work on, questions to ask, or just hang out and see what others are working on.
  • May 19, 2012
    • Micromouse Robot Algorithm - Presented by Donna Smith.

Monday Night Chat

The Seattle Robotics Society hosts a "Monday Night Chat" each week. Official time is 7 - 9 p.m. Pacific Time, but people are often around outside this timeframe as well. Details are on the Contact Us page.