Penn State Robotics Club

Freescale and Beyond

evl5051 — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:53:06 +0000

Trinity may be done, but the club isn’t finished for the semester yet! Remember the meeting today – we have some unfinished business to take care of. Topics will include the Freescale Cup, updating the wiki, and a possible social event near finals.

Free Work Days

evl5051 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:48:44 +0000

Everyone’s finished with tutorials – It’ s all free-work days from here until Trinity. Work hard, get your bots done and get to the competition!

As a quick reminder, meetings are Wednesday at 7:30PM and run until 9:00PM (or later), and extra meetings are held on Sundays, 2:00PM ’til whenever. Both take place at 312 Hammond.

Freescale Cup Kits

evl5051 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:11:32 +0000

Freescale Cup kits are now ready to order! If you’re interested, the Freescale page on the wiki will be under construction, and all the links you’ll need will be there. I’ll also edit this post with a link to the page when I have some information up.

Next Meeting

evl5051 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:08:30 +0000

Hey guys,

Our next extra meeting will be this Sunday, Feb. 5. It will be a repeat of yesterday’s (Wednesday’s) tutorial on sensors and wall following. Our next regular meeting is on Wednesday, Feb. 15. On that tutorial, we’ll get more in-depth with the programming of the Arduino, the logic behind the protoshield, soldering (if people are interested), and finalizing groups for the Trinity competition. After this tutorial, club meetings will involve free work on your robots until the competition. Remember that there is also the Freescale cup, if you would like to work toward that competition rather than the Trinity Firefighting Competition.

In other news, the phishing issue with our website has been resolved. Thanks to the guys over at DreamHost, who have stellar customer support!

Website Hacked

evl5051 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:10:31 +0000

Hey guys,

Our website was recently hacked, and has been down for about a week. The issue is still not quite resolved. PLEASE CHECK WHAT URL YOU ARE ON before doing anything you might regret.

In other news, our next meeting is tomorrow – Wednesday, February 1st. If you didn’t make it to the first meeting, you can still catch up. This week’s tutorial will be on Sensors – more specifically, IR sensors.

- Ed