[chbot] Last nights meeting

[Nathan Kennedy]

Hi Hanno,

I've been very impressed by the keychain camera they have at DX:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-rechargeable-av-300kp-pinhole-spy-keychain-camera-w-tf-slot-44188

Small enough and light enough to strap to the side of a model rocket:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTH5AEBrcFw

(Launch done at Bexley reserve - would take a very different picture now).

Thanks,
Nathan.


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Hanno Sander <hanno at mydancebot.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> Great to see so many faces last night- and nice to be exposed to an
> entirely new hobby (must resist the temptation!)
> Here some links:
> 18gram vga quality camera that I attached to my plane, heli and
> micro-heli: http://www.nitroplanes.com/sm18gfpvmivi.html
> Micro-heli:
> http://www.dealextreme.com/p/gyro-mini-steel-usb-rechargeable-3-ch-r-c-helicopter-44868
> TBot- educational robot on sale now for $199 http://onerobot.org
> 12Blocks- visual programming language for PICAXE, Propeller, etc:
> http://12blocks.com
> Hanno
> http://hannoware.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Richard Jones <rjtp at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Special thanks to Chris and Wallace for bringing along their CNC machines
>> last night to demo. Thanks also to everyone else who turned up, brought
>> items to show and talk about. 22 people attended. In the Micro Robotwars
>> Challenge we had 2 Lego Robots and one in the under 300g category.
>>
>> Our next meeting will be at 6:30pm on Monday 15th August 2011 in Training
>> Room 2 at Tait Radio Communications, 175 Roydvale Avenue Christchurch. We
>> have at least one more volunteer wanting to come along to talk about CNC.
>> I'm hoping to update the email list footer when we get the admin password
>> sorted.
>>
>> Thanks to Kay for posting photos. If anyone else is able to post photos
>> please feel free to do so, I'll attempt to collect them together in due
>> course.
>>
>> Richard
>>
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