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[DPRG] Re: How did RBNO go last night?
Subject: [DPRG] Re: How did RBNO go last night?
From: Kipton Moravec
kip at kdream.com
Date: Wed Jun 25 12:51:23 CDT 2008
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:30 -0500, Doug Emes wrote:
> > From: DeltaGraph at aol.com
> [snip]
>
> > My original position was sell the Heath-Kit robot, but in all truth robots
> > like that, TankBot, and the 6 legged walking robot from Parallax that Brian
> > Clough added the ARM controller to, add real value to the club and should be
> > displayed in a showcase -- where they can be powered up and demoed for
> > visitors.
>
> For each of these robots - they are unique in design and look (compared with
> each other) and help demonstrate some of the variety we have in robotics.
>
> As for "monies" made from selling some of these recently aquired donations:
> it is not a sustainable business model. I would rather us focus our efforts on
> creating an annual fund-raiser or spend the time wooing corporate grants and
> donations to build up the club funds so we could purchase some of the
> "today robots" - whether its the parallax $4k wheeled bot, or a humanoid, or
> a couple of DLP projectors, etc.
My personal opinion is that we should have an assortment of working
Club Robots because there are a lot of times we are asked to do
something "and bring some robots". A lot of times this is hard to do
spur of the moment, because people are working on their robot and while
it may worked last week, it is in pieces being modified this week. Also
some people have a lot of time and money invested in their robot, and
they (rightly so) don't want other people taking it somewhere it may get
accidentally damaged, especially when they are not around.
Working Club Robots are good for demonstrations and educational events.
--
Kipton Moravec AE5IB
"Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
--Mark Twain
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