Admin is going on travel for 6 weeks

[Admin]

So yea, good news, and bad news.

From March 11th to April 22nd I will be on travel. Abridged list of the places I will be visiting:
Caltech in LA, Berkeley near San Francisco, Italy (for ICRA robotics conference), Germany, France, CMU in Pittsburgh, and a robotics company in Ohio.

Good news: I will be visiting robotics labs in many of these places, making connections, competing in a robot contest, and getting ideas for new SoR tutorials.

Bad news: I will not have time to write tutorials or help answer questions on the forum. So Im pleading for everyone (especially the experts) to help each other out. When I get back, I will of course be overloaded with catching up in email and forum posts, so it may take a week more for a return to normality . . .

Bonus - Ill bring back tons of video and pictures of robots around the world to share with everyone
I will also finally post part of my robot fish, which I have kept a secret for so long . . .

Lastly, if anyone is located in any of those cities/countries and wants to meet up and talk about robots, contact me!

[JesseWelling]

Good luck and have fun!
We'll hold down the fort the best we can.

[Putmakeanything]

Does this mean you won't be finishing the step-by-step $50 robot tutorials 3 and 4 by mid-March?

[Admin]

Does this mean you won't be finishing the step-by-step $50 robot tutorials 3 and 4 by mid-March?

Fear not, Ive made this my number 1 priority. Short of my circuit exploding, I will finish it before I go.

FYI, I wired up the circuit today and took tons of pics, but havnt tested it yet. If all goes well, I might have the electronics part done by this weekend.

[inkel]

Good luck !

waiting for more good news.

[Hal9000]

Coolio!

[Admin]

Just letting you guys know Im still alive and all . . .

I finished my week trip in LA, San Jose, and San Francisco.

I also spent 4 days in Rome and 3 in Florence, Italy. Ill be leaving for Venice in about an hour . . . and after that Ill fly to Paris!

In Florence they had this really cool Leonardo Da Vinci Museum where they built replicas of everything Da Vinci scetched up. I took pics of a few of the really interesting ones (including his animatronic 'robot') and Ill post them when I get more time to spare.

Anyway, I got 20 more days to go for my trip in Europe, and almost a week more for another in Pennsylvania/Ohio, but Ill still make sure all runs smoothly till then.

John

[snow]

Hopefully we can see some photo gallery after your trip

Have fun!

[Admin]

update on my trip

went to venice, was attacked by viscious birds:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/503058/hundreds_of_birds_attacking_people/

then went to paris . . . man that eiffel tower has too many stairs . . .

now in berlin.

will probably go to czech republic in a few days.

pics will get posted when i get back, i promise!

[Admin]

Another update on my travel . . .

I am currently in Rome at ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation). Its really exhausting, spending about 10+ hours a day going to presentations and panels and networking and such. Internet is also unreliable and hard to get . . .

I got a few robot videos and pics from the conference Ill share when I get back.

Im learning a lot, but there are also a lot of poor quality presenations too . . .

10 more days left before all returns to normal . . .

[Admin]

what everyone has been waiting for . . .

pics from my trip!

http://www.societyofrobots.com/photo_albums/europe2007/album/

Also, the robotics pics from ICRA 2007 can be found in the folder called 'Rome April 9th-14th.' When I get time Ill do a write up about the conference, as well as post videos.

[Admin]

I did a write up (videos, photos, etc.) of my experiences at the robotics conference in Rome, ICRA 2007:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/misc_ICRA_2007_part1.shtml

enjoy!