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Have you thought about approaching any of the local high school or middle
school robotics clubs? I know there are plenty on this side of the bay, I
assume east bay schools also have some. Possibly some cool outreach
opportunities and getting more kids involved in sudokids?


-hep


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at clear.net> wrote:

> + 1.
>  (though it needs to start early so enough so that it doesn't end late)
>
> You guys are awesome.
>
> sent from eddan.com
>
> On Jul 17, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> it may come as no surprise that i support the idea of a sudo kids robotics
> night 100%. i think we should ask the kids what project they'd like to do.
> hol, if you're around next tuesday, maybe you can introduce the idea to the
> kids and together we can frame a realistic project?
>
> - marina
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Last night went pretty well overall despite not getting my beer machine
>> operational due to disappointing answers to such questions as "how many
>> power cords into power strips into power cords can I connect?" and the ever
>> popular "will the plumbing leak where you least expect it?"  We did have
>> some newbies there working on a robotics project for a school assignment
>> and let me tell you, there's something about the smell of burning servos
>> that just can't be beat.  Overall their objective is to use machine vision
>> as a feedback for actuators, seems pretty cool.  Rabbit and I put together
>> some power hardware to map 4D visualizations to some addressable LED strips
>> for a burning man project.  We did a little probing of the door raspi but
>> couldn't get a rise out of the relevant GPIO pin so I defer to the original
>> system designers, but volunteer to fabricate a plug-in circuit board to
>> streamline the component layout.  Also got some soldering assistance from
>> one of the sudo kids who gravitated t
>>  oward the table full of wires.
>>
>> This final point lead me to an idea - I'd like to incorporate a sudokids
>> robotics event once a month.  Open to any and all ideas as to how this
>> would play out, but at minimum we could have them build and compete remote
>> controlled rovers, in both co-op and free for all modes of course.  Let me
>> know if you have any ideas for kid-friendly microcontroller projects.  I'd
>> like to develop this idea and start mid-september.
>>
>> Happy Hacking,
>> hol
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