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Hello everyone, <br>
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Couple of new faces this evening; welcome. <br>
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Good turnout with 22 attendees, and lots of huddles-of
tech-talk. $34 + change (in gold, and flat-money) collected and
transferred into the robotics loose-change jar (for later
banking). <br>
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Quick reminder: equipment donations are welcome for the trading
table, but no CRT based product, printers, toner or items that
are likely to be a disposal burden. All sales from the trading
table should go into the brown box on the wall, and are directly
for the benefit of our host club, NZART Branch 05. <br>
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With thanks on behalf of the group, <br>
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Mark Atherton <br>
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Alan Leifting paid us a visit from Ecotech Services in Sydenham
and gave us an overview of his eWaste-centric business. <br>
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William had his latest wristwatch on display; he also gave us an
update on project progress. Battery life is now up to about a
month, and unit has acceptable accuracy. <br>
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Robin Gilks gave us an update on the ferrous-removal-project for
the Kiwi enclosure at Willowbank, in Christchurch; this project
is looking very promising. He also gave us quite a discourse on
wind-power-when-it-gets-out-of-control, which was rather scary.
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Andy Dean gave us an update on the Crate Escape project and
brought along some latest-generation hardware. Newer exhibits
include the dark-room, and an outdoor AR exhibit. His son, and
team also won top-of-the-pile for robo-cop, at the oldest
national level - amazing, and very well done. Andy also passed
around some laser-ready laminates which were rather interesting.
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