Minutes from the March 2010

Connecticut Robotics Society Meeting:

The meeting started at 1pm

13 in attendance

Jake - National Robotics Week is April 10-18

Aexeous robot video - demos to school children to motivate them to pursue careers in engineering

The usual introductions by Jake

What Jake did on Thurs - interview on Better Connecticut about the Connecticut Science Center's robotics program. May 29th - date when travelling robotics exhibit comes to the CSC

Jim talked about the RoboWorld exhibit at the Carnegie Science center

Gabe got up and talked about what he has been up to – he would like to network with people who could set himself up in a summer internship program. He can be contacted at gabestripes@gmail.com

Eddie showed the group his Beam Robots - very cool.

Next we had our Ping-pong ball contest.

Contestant #1 - NXT robot that was able to seek a target and shoot a ping-pong ball at it.

Contestant #2 - RCX robot that batted a ping-pong ball around.

Contestant #1 won today's prize.

Next Jake showed a couple of videos of kids building and running robots at a Saturday morning program at the Science Center. He had 3 groups of 30 students.

OpenCV demo - motion detection tracking. Very interesting.

Jake showed the group his new and improved brain wave scanner from Emotiv Systems (www.emotiv.com). Joe was good enough to be a "subject" for our experiment.

  -- Great job to all.

The meeting adjourned about 3:30pm.