[XCSSA] XCSSA Meeting: It's X-otic/Robotic Hardware Hack Night! (Mon, September 15th, 7pm)

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

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Hey all!
This Monday's session has a bit of everything.  First, we have a guest speaker 
from the Texas Institute for Educational Robotics (TIER) giving a talk on the 
TIER educational robotics program.  Mike Henry is going to talk a bit on what 
TIER is about, what volunteer coaching, mentoring and volunteer opportunities 
that they having coming up in Q3-Q1... and I believe that he'll have one of 
their demo robotic platforms with him to show also.  Pretty cool. :) 

Next up, we have Fredrik giving a presentation and demo on some way cool 
X-otic Apple-I clone hardware that he's hacked together and is interfacing to 
it via the custom microcontroller based "C=64 Terminal" that he was working 
on in last month's meeting using his propeller microcontroller!  Should be 
cool seeing it all come together. :)

That's about it for tonight.. I'll update the web site once I get some more 
details, links and bullets from the two parties.


Where?
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We'll be at our regular meeting place, the Nail Technical Center on San 
Antonio College Campus at 7pm.  Map here:
        http://xcssa.org/#MAP

Hope to see you there!


Tweeks
President of XCSSA.ORG