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February Meetup

adam — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:39:49 +0000

Here’s a taste of what you missed if you weren’t at the meetup last week! Brian brought the robot he is entering into the BattleBots contest in California, and gave us a quick (it was freezing out) parking lot demo of the thing in action. Everything on the chassis (except the motors, I think) is custom built by Brian and his classmate, even the dual-motor gear box. Very impressive!

Good luck with the contest Brian – we’d love to see it again with the end effector in place

Landstown Highschool Robot from HR Geeks on Vimeo.

(It’s dark because it was about 10:30PM at night in the mall parking lot. Sorry – better video next time!)

HR Geeks Meetup This Thursday (1/8/09)

adam — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:37:18 +0000

Just a reminder – HR Geeks is meeting at Kelly’s Tavern at Pembroke Mall in Virginia Beach.
People begin arriving at 6:30-7:00PM, and the party goes on until around midnite most times!

Tonight is the same as the TWUUG meeting, so anybody who wants to go to both, feel free to attend TWUUG first, as HR Geeks goes much later than 9PM; we’ll still be there when you’ve got your Linux fill!

See everybody there!

HRGeeks Meeting – April 10th, 2007

Ethan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:35:12 +0000

Hello everyone,

Last Thursday’s HRGeeks meeting was a success! Great to see a good number of new people at the meeting. We saw new students from ODU & TCC, along with some professionals that were in town. On top of this there were other’s who I didn’t recognize as well but didn’t get a chance to talk to them. I don’t think it set a record in regards to attendance, but I could be wrong. I believe the count hit around 22 or 23. Others can fill in the details in the comments
There has been a slight bit of talk about starting a 2nd HRGeeks meeting, that will be specific to accomplishments and projects in progress. The dinner night will of course continue, but the 2nd night is to focus on projects that are in the pipeline. Please feel free to comment on this!

I’m also pondering designs for the first T-Shirt. If there are any suggestions, feel free to comment. I will probably doodle a few in Adobe Illustrator and post links to PDF or GIF images on the mailing list. We can go for the peer review again (like what was done with the stickers).