Please edit the table below with suggestions for meeting talk topics or if you would like to be a presenter.
Many topics will require more than one 20 minute talk.
Feel free to add a more specific topic than what's listed.
For example, Robot Programming could have a talk on Behavior Based Programming in general, then another on Behavior Based Programming for Arduino, then one for FPGAs, etc.
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
|---|
| 3D Printing Basics | | |
| 3D Printing Tricks | | |
| 3D CAD Programs | Skye, Noah, Daryl | Multiple |
| Schematic Capture and PCB Design Basics | | |
| Open Source/Free/Low Cost Schematic and PCB Tool Summary | | |
| Intro to KiCad | | |
| Intro to Eagle | | |
| PCB Design for Manufacturability | | |
| Getting a PCB Fabricated for Hobbyists | | |
| Getting a PCB Assembled for Hobbyists | | |
| Laser Cutting Tricks | Chris Nichols | |
| Creating Designs for Laser Cutting | Chris Nichols | |
| Encoders | | |
| Digital Electronics | | |
| Analog Electronics | | |
| Microcontroller Survey | | |
| Microcontroller (specific ones) | | |
| Intro to Arduino | | |
| Use an Arduino to do X (endless supply of topics) | | |
| Intro to Hobby Robotics (various topics here too!) | Jay Francis | |
| Maker Faire | | |
| Overview of Sensors | Skye? | |
| Digital Filters | | |
| Line following | | |
Have been presented
| Topic | Presenter | Date | Link |
|---|
| Survey of Hobby Robots and Kits | Jay Francis | March 2015 | Survey |
| Laser Cutting Basics | Chris Nichols | March 2015 | Missing |
| Getting PCBs Made | Joe Rothweiler | Apr 2015 | 150419pcb.pdf(0.5MB) |
| Shenzhen Lithium Polymer Battery Factory | Jay Francis | Apr 2015 | Photos/Talk |
| Visit to Creation Station - Westford MA | Chris Nichols | May 2015 | Field Trip |
| What is an IMU | Skye Sweeney | June 2015 | IMU |
| So You Have This Cool New Robot....What does it do? | Rich Maynard | July 2015 | Missing |
| KiCad Demo - Open Source Schematic Capture and PCB Layout | Jay Francis | Aug 2015 | Demo |
| 3D CAD demo with Design Spark Mechanical | Daryl Gallatin | Sept 2015 | Demo |
| 3D CAD demo | Noah Schreiber | Oct 2015 | Demo |
| What is an Operating System? | Skye Sweeney | Oct 2015 | OS |
| Intro to Robot Operating System (ROS) | Bill Schreiber | Nov 2015 | Missing |
| Buying Stuff from China | Jay Francis | Dec 2015 | Talk |
| Real Time OS | Skye Sweeney | Jan 2016 | Real Time OS |
| What's your favorite tool? | Everyone | Feb 2016 | Discussion |
| The ESP8266 WiFi Module | Jay Francis | March 2016 | ESP8266 |
| Intro to the FPGA | Skye Sweeney | Apr 2016 | FPGA |
| Surface mount PCB assembly demonstration | Jay Francis | May 2016 | Demo |
| Finite State Machines | Skye Sweeney | June 2016 | Finite State Machines |
| Robots and the Cloud | Bill Schreiber | July 2016 | Missing |
| Robot networking: socket.io and the ESP8266 | Jay Francis / Paul Beaudet | Aug 2016 | NRB-socket-io |
| Telemetry: TCP/IP, UDP, Problems and Solutions | Josh Rosen | Sept 2016 | Missing |
| Intro to GPS | Skye Sweeney | Oct 2016 | GPS Overview |
| 2020 Bot | Jay Francis | Nov 2016 | Active blog project |
| Swap Fest | Everyone | Dec 2016 | Had to be there... |
| Tic-Tac-No: The Unbeatable Tic-Tac-Toe AI | Alex Rutfield | Jan 2017 | Missing |
| IOT and Machine Learning | Bill Schreiber | Feb 2017 | Missing |
| Easy Speech Synthesis and Voice Recognition for Robotics using the Audeme Movi Shield | Rich Maynard | Mar 2017 | Missing |
| IR Proximity Sensing | Jay Francis | April 2017 | IR Proximity Sensing Arduino code |
| Intro to PID Loops | Skye Sweeney | May 2017 | Intro to PID loops Arduino code |
| Intel Euclid | Jay Francis | June 2017 | Slides and Demo |
| NRB Challenges | Jay Francis | July 2017 | HBRC Document for Inspirations TableBot Example Maze Challenge Example |
| Lunar/Mars Lander Mechatronic Game | Joe McDermott | Aug 2017a | |
| Low Cost Cameras | Joe Rothweiler | Aug 2017b | 1708cameras.pdf(5.4MB) |
| DC Motors | Skye Sweeney | Sept 2017 | Zen and the Art of DC Motors |
| Various Demos | Various | Oct 2017 | |
| Magnetometers | Skye Sweeney | Nov 2017 | Magnetometers Arduino code |
| Driving Straight and Turning with the MPU-6050 | Jay Francis | Dec 2017 | Presentation (Arduino Code Coming Soon) |
| William Grey Walter's Turtles | Rich Maynard | Jan 2018 | |
| Naive Bayes Machine Learning | Bill Schreiber | Feb 2018 | |
| Complementary Filters | Skye Sweeney | Mar 2018 | Presentation |
| Recommendation Engine: Figuring Out What Your Friends Like | Bill Schreiber | April 2018 | |
| IR Beacon | Skye Sweeney | May 2018 | Presentation Arduino code |
| Surface mount soldering tips and tricks | Jay Francis | June 2018 | Presentation |
| Acoustic Ranging | Joe Rothweiler | July 2018 | 1807ranging.pdf(2.2MB) |
| ESP32 Hardware Overview | Jay Francis | August 2018 | Presentation |
| Shenzhenium - Bluepill and other Chinese PCBs | Joe Rothweiler | May 2019 | https://joe1505.github.io/robo/shenzhenium |
| Sumo Bot demo and experiences at MakeIt Fest and Fun with OpenCV | Various | June 2019 | |
| Sumo 2020 Bot with ESP32 and FreeRTOS | Joe McDermott | July 2019 | |
| Kalman Filter | Skye Sweeney | August 2019 | http://fll-freak.com/NRB/Kalman.pdf |
Miscellaneous information from various meetings
