[XCSSA] XCSSA Meeting: RC-Robotic Cooler and USB Bootable Linux (Mon, Aug 17th, 7pm)

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

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Hey all!

This month we have demonstrations of customized Physical Computing and 
customizable Mobile Computing. Check it out!

RC-Robotic Cooler: By Fredrik
One of Fredrik's many cool little projects; He created this "RC Platform" so 
that he didn't have to lug things like coolers full of iced drinks around. He 
just steers the cooler to his destination.

Fredrik's going to show how he put it together, the components he chose and 
some of the challenges that he faced. Want to start learning about motor 
controllers, RC and microcontrollers? This is a great intro level way to get 
into them. (picture on the web site)

If Tweeks remembers to bring his O-scope, maybe we'll get a glimpse of some of 
the PWM motor control voltages involved in efficiently making things move in 
the real world.

Overview of USB stick distro tools: By Tweeks
Tweeks loves the new persistent (change recording) boot USB based, "live CD" 
distro tools that are coming out like Ubuntu's USB-creator. He will be going 
over a couple of different live-USB distor tools, touching on some of the 
pros, cons and feature names to pay attention to when working with USB distro 
tools. 


** See the web site for links to the above subjects. **
http://xcssa.org/archives/XCSSA_2009-08-17.html#NEXT

Hope to see you there!

Tweeks
President of XCSSA.ORG