Hey guys, nothing formal (i.e. we don't have an HBRC booth) but this is happening next Saturday (June 1). I plan on driving "Rocky" around downtown (University Ave)... if anyone else wants to play from what I understand it's an open event.
The Hive @City Camp Palo Alto for the National Day of Civic Hacking!

I am going to upgrade Willie to Ubuntu 12.04 and ROS groovy. Wireless works fine, but there is no driver for the ethernet (ar8152) Does anyone have an original Clearpath Turtlebot with a working hard wired ethernet port and how did you get the driver loaded? I tried to sudo apt-get the linux-backports, but the don't seem to exist for Lucid.

Interesting piece on Google Static Mapping. Good for laying out
RoboMagellan?

[link]
c-2013-with-google-static-maps

Alan KM6VV

Hi guys,

A while back, Microsoft purchased Canesta, inventors of a very
promising low-cost Time-of-Flight depth camera. I have been dying for
this technology to come out, since it lacks the weaknesses of
structured-light/Kinect sensors.

Here is a high-rest picture of the Kinect One internals:

Or maybe not a challenge, maybe this way is easier for a computer to recognize an object.

[link]

Cesar

Hi there,
I recently stmble upon this community doing research on rosserial. I'm currently making a robot that may interest some of you. For now I need specific help with some bug that annoy me.
But first, let me explain the project. I've trying late month doing a robot that could be cheap and easy to program and interacting. I bought a Raspberry and a Arduino and begin to play a bit with those tools. Now I've a nearly functionnal robotic system that I'd like to compare to Mindstorms but DIY way. You can view what it's capable of here: [link]

Some of my favorite things at Maker Faire:
 
Roy the Robot
[link]
 
80-Ruxpin Art Installation
[link]
ARC Attack!
[link]

Home Brew folks, I hadn't see this come across our Home Brew list yet and it
came into our WRRF list. Some summer jobs for young and old, interested in
robotics. I think posting robotics type jobs is ok, right?

Ceal Craig
Treasurer, WRRF BOD

Western Region Robotics Forum

2530 Berryessa Road, #134, San Jose CA 95132

BTW, I just got this in my email from DealXtreme. This is for those of you who were ogling the monstro batteries
I had on Glyptodon Reticulatus, my Mock-TurtleBot this weekend.
[link]

Hi everybody,
here's a link to a flickr set I just uploaded w/ pictures of the Homebrew booth I took at Maker Faire over the weekend.

[link]

Thanks again to Camp for organizing and wrangling this again this year and to everybody else who pulled booth duty

I have a pulsed (38kHz) IR Led that is a 603 size with 2 targets on either
side. The pulsed IR triggers the targets, so I put a bead I got a Michaels
over the LED with sticky spray. The problem is the bead must rise up
slightly and somehow the light escapes underneath the bead and triggers the
target. If I press it back down that fixes it, but not for long. Is there a

Wednesday, May 22, is the date for our SIG meeting this month at the
Hacker Dojo. The meeting will start at 7:00 pm. SIG is an informal
meeting where we just meet and mingle to show off and talk robots. You
don't need to be a member of either HBRC or Hacker Dojo to attend.

Hacker Dojo is at 599 Fairchild Dr, Mountain View, CA 94043. Upon

We moved the tables and covered some of the stuff in plastic. I would call
this a successful day, attracted a lot of attention and talked to a lot of
people. And had to scold some children from pulling on wires... but all in
all a success!!!

wes

Hello,
I am planning to buy some Atmega328 chips and I am wondering if there
is a difference between the 328 and 328p microcontrollers... I know the 'p' means
picopower, but would that make a difference?

Boris.

I think my netbook charger might be cursed!
I forgot it at our booth...
Its a small square black Asus charger...

I won't be at the Maker Faire tomarrow unfourtunately, so if anyone finds it, may they
please bring it to the SIG or the meeting?

Thanks.
Boris

Maker Faire Bay Area 2013
HomeBrew Robotics Club
[link]
 
Hope to see you there!
Camp

Hi Fergs,

I'm trying your Chess package using Maxwell in fake mode to see if I can
move the gripper to a target pose, and I've run into a couple of
glitches. To fire things up I run:

$ roslaunch maxwell_moveit_config demo_fake.launch

and everything comes up OK including RViz with Maxwell nicely displayed.

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody knows a vendor from whom I can purchase
Robosoccer robots. Those cube shaped robots that can remotely controlled
using wireless communications.

Please let me know if you have any info.

Thanks,
Sai Vaddi

My latest gadget has an 4-pin I2C port. The first version of the prototype
used a micro USB port for this purpose but it finally dawned on me that
someone would certainly mistake it for a charging port and plug in a hot
USB cable. So I would rather use some other kind of connector - and in
particular it needs to be panel mount and a connector type for which I can

I know that Fergs has experimented with many gripper designs on Maxwell
so this question is partly aimed at his experience but I hope others
will join in.

I need a Dynamixel-compatible gripper for Pi Robot that would be
suitable for playing with the new ROS MoveIt! pick and place. I've
always been impressed how well the PR2 does with its (apparently) simple