[TriEmbed] March TAR meeting... (TAR is NOT dead)

[Rodney Radford]

We will be meeting in EB1, room 1007 tonight, starting at 7pm - social at
6:30.

I also have confirmation that Paul will be there with his demo, which will
be fun to watch his contraption bang out nearly 3k digits of pi in 3
minutes!


On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 11:07 PM The MacDougals <paulmacd at acm.org> wrote:

> I think so.
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> *From:* Rodney Radford [mailto:ncgadgetry at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 01, 2020 9:10 PM
> *To:* Paul MacDougal
> *Subject:* Fwd: March TAR meeting... (TAR is NOT dead)
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> Can you bring your test jig for testing out the button board, and the
> solenoid push board, and associated items (scope, etc0 for a presentation
> tomorrow night? I know this is short notice, but I am not going to let
> another meeting slip by waiting for our new IEEE R&A chair to schedule a
> meeting...
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *Rodney Radford* <ncgadgetry at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 9:08 PM
> Subject: March TAR meeting... (TAR is NOT dead)
> To: trianglerobotics <trianglerobotics at yahoogroups.com>, TriEmbed
> Discussion <triembed at triembed.org>
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> TAR has been meeting the first Monday of the month since early 1980s, so
> over 35 years, and has always met on the first Monday of every month. Over
> the years, we have had a few weather related times we had to cancel (snow,
> ice, hurricane, tornado - a bit of it all), but we have never had two
> missed meetings in a row until now.
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> I apologize for that, and promise we will continue meeting on a monthly
> basis again starting tomorrow - either as TAR, or as a joint TAR and IEEE
> R&A meeting.
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> Tomorrow's meeting with be a show and tell, so if you have a project to
> show, please bring it.
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> So far we have:
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> * Rodney - showing the latest update on SoutheastCon 2020 hardware
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> * Rodney - discussing some of the innovative solutions to the contest from
> the 50+ teams competing (with videos and photos)
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> * Rodney - discussing the very early release of the 2021 SoutheastCon
> rules - would love to hear your thoughts on them, and how they can be
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> * Hopefully Paul gets this in time and can bring out his test jig for the
> button board challenge (how many digits of pi can you input in 3 minutes?)
> - Paul has it up to almost 3,000 digits now, carving bare milliseconds off
> each button press and release
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> * You - yes YOU - what fun project do you have you would like to discuss,
> or present? This is your opportunity
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> I look forward to the meeting tomorrow night and hope you can attend.
> Attendance the last few months has dropped off a bit, and i would like to
> see us revive TAR (and possibly IEEE R&A) by having a fun mixture of
> practical robots (the old TAR), plus a mix of the academic (IEEE R&A).
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> I will also open up the floor tomorrow night to look for suggestions on
> what we can do to improve our meeting going forward.
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> Meeting begins at 7pm. There will not be any pizza or drink this time, but
> please show up early and we can use the time to socialize and chat.
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