[57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Movement Themed Thursday: 6th November

[Andy Gaskell]

Movement theme sounds magic, I'll be heading down.
I'll see if I can find some possibly handy bits and bobs to bring down,
might just raid the kids room for clockwork nicknacks.
Cheers
Andy


On 6 November 2014 14:06, <richard.buchan at dbil.com> wrote:

>
> hi, I will be at the space this evening - looking forward to the
> discussions :)
>
>
> > This weeks Themed Thursday will be an evening looking at various things
> > to cause or sense movement.
> >
> > We will have some motors, servos and steppers (at least one of each) and
> > example control systems to have a play with (and hopefully people who
> > understand them to have a chat with).
> >
> > On the sensing side we have accelerometers and some ideas around making
> > potentiometers from conductive ink.
> >
> > There was talk a while ago of building a communication system that pulls
> > on string for its physical layer. This talk might continue and perhaps
> > even get as far as some action.
> >
> > Bring along anything you have to make or sense movement (anyone got a
> > collection of solenoids? Some hydraulic or pneumatic rams? Does anybody
> > know what they're doing with the mechanical side of things?
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkQ2pXkYjRM), or movement related
> > problems or hair brained schemes.
> >
> > I won't be around next Thursday (13th). Any volunteers to run something?
> > The organising can be as simple as committing to being there and
> > announcing a topic you're interested in (or as complicated as you like).
> >
> > Robert
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