[chbot] Last nights meeting

Hanno Sander hanno at mydancebot.com
Tue Jul 19 09:55:14 BST 2011


Great find Nathan.  Nice rocket video too!  Nice think about DealExtreme is
they ship here for free- although it can take many weeks...
Hanno

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> That is impressive, even more so for a US$12 unit !
>
> At 07:58 p.m. 19/07/2011, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> 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>
> 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
> ><<mailto:hanno at mydancebot.com>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>
> http://www.nitroplanes.com/sm18gfpvmivi.html
> >Micro-heli:
> ><
> http://www.dealextreme.com/p/gyro-mini-steel-usb-rechargeable-3-ch-r-c-helicopter-44868
> >
> 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>http://onerobot.org
> >12Blocks- visual programming language for PICAXE, Propeller, etc:
> ><http://12blocks.com>http://12blocks.com
> >Hanno
> ><http://hannoware.com>http://hannoware.com
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Richard Jones
> ><<mailto:rjtp at ihug.co.nz>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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