<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-bottom: 16pt; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><B>Christchurch Robotics Group Meeting.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-bottom: 16pt; "><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Wednesday 17</SPAN></FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma-Bold"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.4444px;"><B>th</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><B> October 2007</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Thank you to those who came on Wednesday. A record turnout, some new faces and some new robots and very interesting topics to talk about and things to see. Thanks too for those who sent apologies, we can't all make every session. We are still fortunate to be able to use the Science Alive facilities, so please keep putting your gold coin donations into the tin, they are appreciated.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><B>Organisational Developments since the last Meeting</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Advertising and word of mouth is growing our numbers. Please send me any ideas that you may have for publicity, or just do it! I’ll bring some publicity sheets to the next meeting for new members to take away so that they have contact details for us.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Our prototype web site: </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://groups.msn.com/chchrobotics"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#472D7E" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">http://groups.msn.com/chchrobotics</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> has some photos of Wednesday’s session. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Subscribe or send me your content if you would like to have information posted. We have had an offer of help with an improved web site and hosting in return for some publicity. More news soon.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><B>Attending Robots and Topics</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Synco Reynders gave us a fascinating talk about the development and operation of his GPS Boomerang with videos of media coverage and some experimental flights. See </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.gpsboomerang.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">http://www.gpsboomerang.com/</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> for more details and prices. </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Hanno Sander brought a wonderful balancing robot that uses accelerometers and gyros and a parallax propeller array processor to balance on two wheels and dance. The bot leans back before driving forwards, and has a neat trick if the motors cannot meet the demand. Have a look at Hanno’s site </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://mydancebot.com/">http://mydancebot.com</A>.</SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> There are some pics from Hanno here: </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://groups.msn.com/chchrobotics/shoebox.msnw"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">http://groups.msn.com/chchrobotics/shoebox.msnw</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Peter Harris brought along his Robot Lawnmower. Still under development but moving nicely under radio control. Heaps of sealed lead acid batteries, huge FET H bridges and a neat tendancy to stand on its stabilizer wheel. This looks like a bot not to be messed with.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Carl Ranson brought along some tiny DC motors to give away, thanks Carl.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Peter Morris showed his table top challenge robot named 'Hugo' adapted for line following which it did very nicely. Anyone up for line following races next session?</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Steve Graham bought an optical stepper motor driven scanning table with a laser line for capturing 3D images on computer that can then be used for direct fabrication.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Richard Jones brought a micromouse maze simulation written in Python now moving and turning in the maze competition style, and a DSL modem to be adapted for robotics using openwrt. See <A href="http://openwrt.org">http://openwrt.org</A>/</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">All told a very lively and interesting session. If I’ve missed anything or corrections are required just email the group. Thanks to all who came.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><H1><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Next Meeting<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 19<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.7778px;">th</SPAN></FONT> December 7.30pm Seminar Room (Note the change back to our normal venue). Bring a xmas fare plate and some robots to talk about. With no main topic we can divide our attention appropriately to each bot that comes along.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><B>Statistics</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica-Bold" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">16 In Attendance including 1 partner, 1 chauffeur, 1 guest</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">6 first timers, 10 been before.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">5 from Tait Electronics</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">1 from Canterbury University</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">2 from Bright Sparks</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">~0 Biscuits eaten. I forgot the biscuits doh!</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">5 Moving Robots. Lawn Mower, GPS Boomerang, Dancebot, Line Follower, Scanner (in approx weight order)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;">$21.80 Room Collection for Science Alive!</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><A href="mailto:richard.jones@tait.co.nz">richard.jones@tait.co.nz</A></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-GB"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>