[chbot] CHCH Robotics Group, meeting notes 20 June 2016

[Mark Atherton]

Hello everyone,

Enthusiastic turnout, with 21 attendees with $29 collected and 
transferred to BR05 account. Balance is in the donation box.

Apologies to BR05 for not keeping a close eye on exactly how much money 
was deposited in the brown donations box this evening, but the evening 
started with a wild rush of sales !

With thanks on behalf of the group,
Mark Atherton

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Early in the evening, the hoards descended on the scrap angle ali pile. 
After consulting with Rory at BR05, a price of $3 per meter was agreed. 
Sales netted something over $60 cash, and an IOU note for $24. Also, the 
‘small’ 10kV single phase transformer sold for $60 including a small 
pile of various other items. Monies were directly deposited in the brown 
BR05 donation box next to the radio room.

A new member turned up to see what the group was about – welcome.

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Synco gave a tutorial about use of 16 bit timer/counters (as on board 
the Atmega328 etc.) to a small gathering around the white-board.

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William has been working on his LCD watch/display, with Atmel Leonardo 
(ATmega32u4) controller. Progress is being made developing drivers, as 
is the main application.

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Rudy talked about podcasts, including the Dave Jones EEV blog. He also 
ran through some of his favourite ‘casts.

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Synco talked about his thermal imaging camera which attaches to his 
smart phone. Unit was a ‘SeekThermal IR’ unit.

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Graham talked about progress of his spark eroder project (which he 
presented about three years ago). He then moved onto some modelling work 
he had done using hard foam.

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Andrew discussed his experience with remote VR goggles from a model 
aircraft. Also mentioned his trampolining business in Bromley.