The Speaker for January is Andra Keay, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics.

Title: "Robotics is the next big thing in Silicon Valley"

2011 brought the National Robotics Initiative and a resurgence in robot sales, both industrial and service. 2012 brought the announcements of more robotic manufacturing reshoring to Silicon Valley and new accelerators and investment funds for robotics. Silicon Valley has the largest concentration of robotics companies and robotics research facilities in the US, in the middle of a thriving innovation ecosystem. Silicon Valley Robotics is a 501(c)6 business league or professional association representing the interests of individuals, startups, companies and organizations

As an experiment, I've set up a build farm on my personal desktop to run
ROS builds for ARM. At the moment, I'm building ROS Groovy for Ubuntu
Oneiric and Precise. I've only been able to build catkin packages at
this point, but it's enough for me to run the basics on my Pandaboard.

If anyone else is interested, my buildfarm status page is here:

I need to create a small enclosure and some small parts and I see Techshop
has a 3D printing service. They told me all I have to do is give them an
STL file. Can someone recommend CAD/CAM software I could use to make my
enclosure?

Bill W.

My brother Jon (j...@huv.com) is in Mountain View this week and would like
to drop in on the meeting.

If somebody is driving in from Mountain View that he can get a ride from,
or if somebody can make trains/bus recommendations, that would be great.

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Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
[link]

This looks like it will be interesting?

[link]

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William Estrada
Mt Umunhum, CA, USA
HTTP://64.124.13.3 ( Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net )
Skype: MrUmunhum

I've been running my turtlebot off an old Lenovo laptop that's big, heavy,
and gets about 20min off of it's battery. I think it's time for an
upgrade. I was looking at getting a mini itx (
[link] ) and powering
it off a 14.4v battery. Does anyone have any other recommendations or

This is a reminder that the SIG meeting is this coming Wednesday,
January 23, at the TechShop in Menlo Park (120 Independence Dr), at the
usual time, 7:30
pm, and including the usual suspects. Bring what you're working on to
show it off. If you have a problem, run it past our team of experts. If

This was in a CES article.

[link]

Bill W.

After lots of requests from folks wanting to use Loki's code and hardware
designs with Arduino, I have converted Loki's sensor interface from a PIC
processor board to Arduino Mega 2560.

Check out the new interface shield schematic and source code at:
[link] (scroll to bottom for the new