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Botbridge robotics club is on hiatus but there are new robotics clubs popping up and you could start one or get involved in one and reboot botbridge in a new form!
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<div style=font-size:18px>Botbridge is a beginner-friendly robotics club that meets on Mondays alongside [[chm|Circuit Hacking]]. </div>

= Botbridge Robot Hacking Mondays =

If you are new to robotics, you can also learn the circuit hacking classes to get acquainted with electronics parts codes and soldering techniques.

== Future Projects ==
* Make a wireless DiyIO robot that communicates with the network powered by its own Android brain
* CNC metal legs to make the 

== Current Projects ==

=== Mutt the Hexapod ===
* We are currently assembling Mutt, a quadriped (so far) robot using a [http://neuronrobotics.com/ Neuron Robotics DiyIO].

[[File:BotBridgeDiYO.jpg|700px]]
* Next Steps:
** 3D printing leg parts
** Acquire wire to tamiya adapters
* Completed:
*** Acquired DiyIO, 13 servos, 8650x2 battery holder, Logitech LifeCam
badass robot operating system/controller that simulates any leg config and 3D prints its parts out for you!
** November 16: 3D printed body and one of six legs (9 pieces, 3 motors), wired it to the body, manual control convulses the leg, very exciting first steps literally.

=== Flutter Scout ===
[[File:Flutterscout.jpg|300px|thumb|center|The Flutter Scout rover uses no screws and only tires, bushings and motor. The gears and slotted together parts all 3D printable.]]
* [https://github.com/tlalexander/Flutter-Scout Flutter Scout] is a 3D printable robot based on the Flutter wireless controller by Taylor Alexander

=== Boe-bot ===
[[File:Boe-bot.jpg|500px|thumb|center]] 
Boe-bot is a simple robot we're working on for teaching purposes. It uses a Parallax board that can be programmed with BASIC.
Software https://www.parallax.com/downloads/macbs2-software

== Noisebridge Robot Alumni Association ==
[[File:DoraBot_2012_08_25.jpg|thumb|center|550px|MC Hawking on Aug.25,2012, [http://www.dorabot.com DORA Project]]]

* [[Noise-bot|MC Hawking (aka the robot formerly known as Noise-bot)]] is a wheelchair-based open [http://www.dorabot.com Dora Bot]] that moved to [http://www.sudoroom.org Sudoroom]. MC Hawking was created by Jake, Lilia, Dr. Jesus, Evan, Hao and Neil.

== Kits we've used ==
* [http://neuronrobotics.com/ Neuron Robotics DiyIO] badass robot operating system/controller that simulates any leg config and 3D prints its parts out for you!
* [http://www.readiymate.com/ ReaDIYMate] kits to make internet-connected things.


== Noisebridge resources relevant to robotics ==

* [[Circuit Hacking Monday]]: If you are new to robotics, you should attend the circuit hacking classes to get acquainted with electronics parts codes and soldering techniques.
* [[Light Patterns with LEDs and Microcontrollers]] look great on robots.
* [[Sensors]] make robots aware of their environment.
* [[Dreamteam]] Neuromachine Learning Wednesdays group can help us teach our robots how to learn.

== Organizer Contacts ==
[[User:Lxpk]]

== Participants ==
* Chris B
* Divya

== Meetings ==

=== Nov 23 2015 ===
* Attending: Alex, Lisha, Joe, Chris
* Lisha: I started a robotics controller project that could power agricultural and RC car controlling applications. We focused on crowdsourced design and I'm interested in a way for people to iterate on their designs such as walking.
* Joe: I'm from Uganda and went to computer school there. One of my friends when I moved there has a hackspace in Uganda. Henry's group has been doing robots and whatever. They suggested I check out Noisebridge. The space is callde Hackers For Charity.
* How to adjust the bot parts to fit better
** Kevin is adjusting the parts to recess the servos deeper and fit the arms better.
* How to manufacture the bot parts
** Type A Machines could print parts for us
** We should visit them in San Leandro
* What the bot could do
** Participate in making pizzas
*** Toppings placing and tossing
*** Slizing knife
*** Sauce laying tube
*** Field trip to learn about pizza hacking: Visit [http://thepizzahacker.com/ PizzaHacker] and learn about his DIY oven

=== Nov 8 2015 ===
* Attending: Alex, Chris, Divya
* Introductions
** Alex: I teach game programming and that has always left me with robot envy because game AI characters cannot take over the actual world. So I want to build robots to be able to teach both virtual world and physical world taking overness to kids.
** Divya: I'm here to absorb different types of hacking, software and hardware. I want to think creatively by exposing myself to random things till I find the idea I life and can focus on it.
** Chris: I would like to build a robot. I've always wanted to build a robot. I plan on using this opportunity to motivate myself to finally put together the tabletop arm design I've had for a long time. I will put it to use building things for me. I can't physically build them all with my two hands. It will do fast accurate repetitive work. I could buy one like that, but its a lot of fun to build it. Once I have a relatively inexpensive arm that works well, I can replicate that and make a kit other people can build too!

* What we did so far?
** We gave a 5 minute presentation to the Chinese delegation at Circuit Hacking which was translated for them live!
** We attempted to stuff the power connector plugs with something to get them to stay in but it wasn't working, we should get proper connector adapters
** I think we need a Tamiya to pigtail connector

* What would we like the robot to do? 
** Divya: 
*** Massage walks on your back and lets you tell it where and how to massage you
**** This can be prototyped using the xbox controller before doing speech recognition
*** Monitoring your flat to record intruders such as land ladies
** Lizzy
*** Challenge your friends who come in with a challenge of riddles
*** Pick up dog poop
*** Move like an animal
** Safety:
*** Account for default mode and make sure that when it loses connection, crashes, etc, that it definitely shuts down
*** Training it to recognize table edges and avoid them
*** Potentially high power energy source 
*** Thermistor on board to watch out for fire
*** Arms
*** Spider arms
*** No pincers!
*** One large one and one small one
** Cameras 
*** 360 cameras would be awesome for looking around through Oculus
*** Hemispherical mirror kit exists
*** OpenCV vision system
**** Face Detection
** Speakers

** Is our robot wireless?
** N

* Is the robot for home or office?

** Detect emotion by doing voice stress analysis
** Prosidy software

* Voice detection could count how many times you say umm ahh and coach you 
* Game console so you can play games with and against it


** Someone made a Tinder called Rumbler for starting fights in your area

** Things to add to the robot
*** Sensors
**** Force sensors to know when the robot is touching something

** Depth cameras such as kinect to sense the room around it.

** Nerf gun
** Do my homework
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