Difference between revisions of "Group:Robotics"

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Meetups: Every Tuesday 7:30pm start at London Hackspace (free event, non-members welcome)
Open to both members and non-members (if needed please ring the bell and mention your are coming for the robotics group meetup)

Robotics is a multidisciplinary field and although that is what makes it exciting, it also makes it really hard to get started.

Here are some resources to get you on help you get started:

Starting bots
- Jasmine Swarm Robot Platform
Electronics
- edX Embedded Systems course(link) on 22nd Jan 2014. Syllabus can be found here here and can order the eval board required for the course at TI-store for just over £8 equivalent.
Software
Mechanics
- Robotics 101 - Set of videos based around the Actobotics set by Sparkfun, good general overview.
Books
- Don't forget we have some good books at the hack-space library, you can browse them using LibraryThing

Hack Space Robotics Development platform - An experimental platform for bridging the mechanics-software gap at the hackspace
Staubli Robot Arm - Our industrial robot arm
Puppeteer telepresence platform - An open source telepresence project started with NovaLabs

Here's the opt-in list of members and what they are working on

Mentar working on the HSRDP and the Staubli Robot Arm. Quite keen on ROS, pretty good with software, ok with electronics, rubbish at mechanics
Ianadan complete robot noob. Building Maki So need to learn more about ROS and Arbotix and general feedback sensors. 3D Printer, okay with mechanics, rubbish at most other stuff I need...
Jon I currently have a small collection of home built and bought robots, including a 3Pi, a scratch build two wheel balancing robot, an antique 6DoF hydraulic arm and a RoboNova biped. I built an autonomous robot for the [SparkFun AVC competition] in June 2013, and I'm helping with the Staubli Robot Arm.

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 * Software
 * Mechanics
+** [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBcrWxTa5CS2eHsNXcfdCML4syi7t34p1 Robotics 101] - Set of videos based around the Actobotics set by Sparkfun, good general overview.
 * Books
 ** Don't forget we have some good books at the hack-space library, you can browse them using [http://www.librarything.com/catalog/londonhackspace&deepsearch=Robotics LibraryThing]