Happy Hardware Birthday

All contributions gratefully recieved

Had a great birthday today. Got a new money box I can use to save up for cameras (and film), along with chocolate goodies, a camera bag and a book about experimental photography. Then it was time for the hardware meetup. I took cake. It seemed the right thing to do.

In the spirit of novel musical instruments, Ian brought along this amazing wind powered keyboard.

We had a good group of folks turned up. All the cake was eaten and the conversation was as wide-ranging as ever. Ross had brought along his “awesome keyboard controller” and it was, er, awesome (so good I forgot to take pictures). We also had the next iteration of rugby playing robots.

These are the robots in the arena

Ben was coding the robot movement and Brian had some software running for tracking them.

You can see the blue markers on the tops of the robots showing they are being tracked.

The next step is to send position information to the robots so that the code in them can work out which way to go. We should be doing that at the next meetup in a couple of weeks.