[chbot] Robotics Group meeting, Monday 20 April 2020, 7:30pm, via Google Meet

[Mark Atherton]

Hello everyone,

An evening hosted by Spencer using Google Meet, via Spencer’s account. 
There were around 14 participants during the evening.

A few teething problems as (just about) everyone poked around at this 
new communications medium, and associated user interface.

Obviously no funds collected, but BR05 exec copied on this report just 
for information.

This was a very interesting, and successful evening. Mark and Bevin were 
brave enough to share screens with the group which turned out quite well.

Mark Atherton

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Mark started off with a description of the Turbo-pump project. Work 
included multiple-boot loaders, application development and touch screen 
development, using the B version of the ATmega328 (with second USART). 
Also covered FPGA, and Mechanical design issues.

Robin gave a talk about the STM32F403 processor and evaluation board, 
all for NZ$12.

Bevin continued with his wonderful talk about Compiler Construction. 
This evenings discussion revolved around creation and traversing (double 
linked list) trees during semantic analysis.

Rudy talked about his experiences with the 11.5V limit of the 
Ali-express sourced Adruino Pro-mini processor boards.

William has been working on his jumbo clock, and showed us various 
boards he has been working on.