Introduction to Hobby Robotics

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I am planning on starting robotics club. If you are interested in joining please shoot me a note at royce.pipkins@gmail.com

If you've seen BattleBots, the DARPA Grand Challenge, the DARPA Urban Challenge, FIRST or IGVC and lamented the fact that ones needs to be a student or have lots of money and free time to participate, then this session is for you. I'll introduce attendees to the essence and joy of building autonomous hobby robots as well as the hobby robot communities available for individual participation locally and across the world. We'll briefly review the myriad of skills, techniques and parts one encounters in robotics, many of which are the same as found in the aforementioned 'large' robotics events. I will show you how hobby robotics can start off as a small, light weight and (relatively) inexpensive hobby as well as how it can slowly morph in an all consuming obsession!