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Next General Meeting
The next general meeting is scheduled for Saturday, July 25th, 2009, 10AM to noon at Pinckneyville Community Center.
Robot Builders Night Out is now Robot Builders Morning Out.
By popular demand, RBNO is moving from Wednesday nights to Saturday mornings. The schedule is now the 2nd Saturday at 10 AM at Pinckneyville Community Center same as the main meeting.
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Want to build a robot but have no clue how to get started? Check out our Beginners links.
The 2009 Robot Rally was awesome!
Polyathlon scores
| Contestant | Robot Name | Polyathlon Score |
| Dale Heatherington | Polymax 9000 | 426.45 |
| Ryan Baker | EEB | 299.58 |
| Frank Borowiec | 3pi | 200.49 |
| Hassan | Anniyan | 197.99 |
| Kirk Charles | Poly Mauler | 194.13 |
| Travis Rosenbaum | Ping | 152.10 |
| Len Burleson | Cruser | 85.49 |
| Elliot Chung | gk1 | 29.51 |
| Elliot Chung | gk2 | 22.69 |
| Chris Albright | BOEregard | 20.38 |
| Ben Bradley | The Amazing Polybot | 0.00 |
Polyathlon highlights video
AHRC at the Pinckneyville open house 9/6/08
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August meeting Pictures
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Damon Padgett (TRS) talked about his line of tactical police robots.
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Charles Guan (right) shows off his fleet of combat bots, Uberclocker, Pop Quiz and Nuclear Kitten |
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Uberclocker (30#) |
3 pound Nuclear Kitten 5 and 1 pound Pop Quiz 2 |
Dale demonstrates his Cube Quest bot
With new software the bot autonomously moves red blocks to the home goal and blue blocks to the opponents goal while avoiding walls. Click here to visit Dale's build log for this bot.
Cube Quest Beacon Challenge
At the March 2007 meeting we had 3 contestants enter the Cube Quest beacon race challenge. The goal was to make 5 round trips between the beacons in the least time. Ringo's bot did it in 53 seconds, Dale's bot clocked 28 seconds and Nathaniels bot had incomplete software and only managed to make a single trip in 30 seconds.
Meeting Photos
Measuring line follower speed with radar |
Len shows off his new Roomba |
SPI interface demo |
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Alumalite casting demo |
Older stuff
Robot Rally Contest Scores:
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