Group:Robotics

Robotics group

• Description: We are an informal group of robotics enthusiasts that meet on Tuesdays to "sync" on projects, we also arrange to hack on stuff at other times. We have members who are very good in various fields and have those that are just starting out on hacking on their projects, so beginners are just as welcome!
• Meetups: Every Tuesday 7:30pm start at London Hackspace (free event, non-members welcome)
• Open to both LHS members and the public (if needed please ring the bell and mention your are coming for the robotics group meetup)

Updates

• 24 Feb 2014 - Base installed and drying, good job everyone!
• 18 Feb 2014 - Staubli base casting scheduled for next Tuesday (25th)
• 11 Feb 2014 - Cleared out the robotics/CNC area !

Get in touch

• Use the webchat client that runs in your browser.
• Or point your IRC client at #london-hack-space-robotics on irc.freenode.net.
• LSHRobotics mailing-list

How to get started

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
  • Andrew Davison (Imperial College) robotics course ([1]). Excellent introduction to mobile robotics.
• 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

Robotics projects

• 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

Members

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.
• Salman.

Past meetups

You can find an brief record of what we've done and/or discussed on our past meetup page.