[chbot] Introduction (was: Re: Last two and a bit days of the garage sale....)

[Richard Jones]

Good morning Phil and welcome to the Christchurch Robotics Group.
Really glad you found us and looking forward to meeting with you at  
our next session on Wednesday 15th april 7.30-9.30pm in the  Science  
Alive Seminar Room. (Blatant plug)
I was going to ask you for suggestions about where we could publicise  
our meetings to meet with like minded folks like TVIC, but I see you  
have beaten me to it by posting us on your site. Thanks.
If you are able to make it to the robotics meeting is there any  
chance that you could bring along some Arduino projects to show and  
tell? It looks very interesting. I have an ATMega128 on my micromouse  
so have a vested interest in that platform.
You may also be interested in the Parallax Propeller proto board:  
http://www.parallax.com/Store/Microcontrollers/ 
PropellerDevelopmentBoards/tabid/514/ProductID/423/List/1/ 
Default.aspx?SortField=ProductName,ProductName
The propeller packs 8 cpu's inside, so its great for real time.

Cheers


Richard Jones


On 2/03/2008, at 1:39 AM, follower wrote:

>> New Deal..... $30 a box....
> Heh, I wonder where you got that idea from? :-)
>
> Hi all, thanks to Mike for mentioning chbot to me when I was at his
> garage sale picking up a bargain.
>
> I was pleased to learn about the group and interested to see a few
> names I recognise from other technical meetups around Christchurch.
> (Although I did have a little trouble finding your current, active
> website--might pay to ask Mike to update
> <http://www.kiwacan.co.nz/chbot/> when he's got a moment!)
>
> While I don't have a specific plan to build a robot I am interested in
> electronics and automation--you can check out some of my projects
> here: <http://code.rancidbacon.com/>. I'm also keen to meet people
> doing cool techy stuff in Christchurch or New Zealand and encourage
> cross-group pollination.
>
> Along those lines, I help organise a monthly techy dinner group "The
> Valley in Christchurch" <http://groups.google.com/group/tvic> and
> would like to extend an invitation to chbot inhabitants to attend
> also.
>
> We actually had a great night this past month visiting the Geekosystem
> <http://physicsroom.org.nz/gallery/2008/ageekosystem/> and having a
> hardware hacking session. While the walk-in workshops aren't running
> now some of you might be interested in checking it out. There's a few
> interesting historical items there also. (Some of you might have seen
> an earlier TVIC hacking session on the Make blog:
> <http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/12/old_cdrom_xmas_lights.html>)
>
> Also, if you have a blog please let me know and I can add it to Planet
> NZTech <http://planet.nztech.org/> which aims to aggregate the blogs
> of New Zealanders or New Zealand residents who are doing stuff in the
> tech industry.
>
> I was disappointed to learn about this month's meeting a week too late
> but hope to be able to make the April event.
>
> Looking forward to seeing what others are up to and sharing what
> others might be interested in...
>
> --Phil.
>
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