Announcements
- Robothon is back for 2009! Competitions are on Oct 10 and 11. Check out the
Robothon site for details.
- In even-numbered months (Feb, Apr, Jun, etc.), the meeting will be followed by an
afternoon robot work session (until 5 p.m.) in room K-111.
- The July 18 meeting will be followed by a swap meet.
Upcoming Events
Annual Swap Meet
SRS Tailgate Swap Meet after the July 18 meeting -
Clean out your garage/basement/whatever and bring your stuff to trade/sell/give away.
After the meeting we'll move outside to the parking lot so just leave your stuff in
your vehicle, but bring in a teaser or two for show-n-tell if you want. Remember,
whatever you don't get rid of needs to go with you.
Robothon
October 9-11, 2009
Robothon is the Seattle
Robotics Society's signature event.
Robothon is open to the public, admission is free, and there are lots of
interesting and exciting competitions. Please visit the
Robothon page for details!
Meetings
Our regular meetings are at 10am on the third
Saturday of each month at Renton
Technical College. After the meetings we typically head out for lunch;
details will be announced at the meeting.
Below are the planned presentations for upcoming meetings. The
Presentations page contains an archive
of presenters and their topics.
- June 20, 2009
- Automobile status monitoring -
Cathy Saxton will present her RAV4-EV
Monitor, explaining how she learned to communicate with the RAV4-EV's internal
computers and her project for showing useful diagnostic and energy-efficiency
information on a color OLED screen.
- The meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session
(until 5 p.m.) in room K-111. Bring a project to work on, questions to ask, or just
hang out and see what others are working on. The focus of this month's session will be to
answer questions about building robots for the Robothon competitons.
- July 18, 2009
- Brain-Robot Interfaces -
Professor Rajesh Rao,
Associate Professor at UW (CS department) will talk about brain-robot interfaces.
- The meeting will be followed by a swap meet.
Clean out your garage/basement/whatever and bring your stuff to trade/sell/give away.
After the meeting we'll move outside to the parking lot so just leave your stuff in
your vehicle, but bring in a teaser or two for show-n-tell if you want. Remember,
whatever you don't get rid of needs to go with you.
- August 15, 2009
- LIFESUIT -
Monty Reed will present an update on the
LIFESUIT.
- The meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session
(until 5 p.m.) in room K-111. Bring a project to work on, questions to ask, or just
hang out and see what others are working on.
- September 19, 2009
- October 17, 2009
- RepRap (tentative) -
Wahid Tanner and Lou Amadio will give a live demo of RepRap.
- The meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session
(until 5 p.m.) in room K-111. Bring a project to work on, questions to ask, or just
hang out and see what others are working on.
- November 21, 2009
- Autonomous Robotic Buoys -
Professor Steve Riser, UW oceanographer, will present on
autonomous
robotic buoys (Argo Floats) that swim the earth's oceans gathering
temperature, salinity, and current flow data giving scientists a view of
the global ecosystem and effects of climate change around the world.
- December 19, 2009
- TBD
- The meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session
(until 5 p.m.) in room K-111. Bring a project to work on, questions to ask, or just
hang out and see what others are working on.
- January 16, 2010
- Robotic Interface in Performance Measurement and Assessment -
Professor Mika N. Sinanan,
MD, PhD, (President, University of Washington Physicians Professor of Surgery) will present on
the role of a robotic interface in performance measurement and assessment.
Monday Night Chat
The Seattle Robotics Society hosts a "Monday Night Chat"
each week at 7pm Pacific Time. Details are on
the Contact Us page.
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