PSU Fourth Avenue Building Harrison Street Entrance

Speaker: Scott Dixon Topic: How to bring up a new PCB design

After a new PCB design has been assembled, it is time to test and debug it. This is often called "board bringup" and it is something which is seldom explicitly taught. There are a number of things which can be done, both in the initial design stage and during the bring up process to make it easier to get a new design tested and running.

Monthly meeting. Bring a project for the show and tell portion of the meeting if you want. This month the talk is "An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving".

Topic: "thingSoC" presented by Tom Moxonn

thingSoC - http://thingsoc.github.io/

thingSoC is an open source standard that defines a vendor independent socket system for the creation of new Internet Things; it addresses many of the limitations of current product offerings and standards, by adding capabilities such as automatic device discovery, device configuration, monitoring, instrumentation, and testing.

"Designing a Laser Range Finder" presented by Joe Grand

The Parallax Laser Range Finder (LRF) module is a low cost, open source hardware device that uses laser light to measure the distance to a targeted object up to 8 feet away (http://www.grandideastud io.com/portfolio/laser-range-finder). It incorporates a Propeller multicore microcontroller, OmniVision OVM7690 640x480 CMOS CameraCube, and Arima 635nm APC Laser Diode.

In this presentation, Joe Grand will provide a behind-the-scenes look at his experiences designing the module and discuss its operational details. He'll also have some demos of the LRF module in action.

The deign and engineering for the next PSAS vehicle is underway: a carbon-fiber rocket body with a gimballed liquid fuel motor.

We always meet in the Fourth Avenue Building at PSU. We meet in room FAB-84, the large room on the lower level of FAB near the stairs.

One feature of the PSAS rocket vehicle is a custom GPS receiver. These instructional meetings review the GPS system and protocol in great technical depth.

We always meet in the Fourth Avenue Building at PSU. We meet in room FAB-86-01, the large room on the lower level of FAB near the stairs.

Our long term goal at Portland State Aerospace Society is to put a tiny satellite into orbit. New member information is at this link.

http://psas.pdx.edu/NewMembers/

The deign and engineering for the next PSAS vehicle is underway: a carbon-fiber rocket body with a gimballed liquid fuel motor.

We always meet in the Fourth Avenue Building at PSU. We meet in room FAB-84, the large room on the lower level of FAB near the stairs.

One feature of the PSAS rocket vehicle is a custom GPS receiver. These instructional meetings review the GPS system and protocol in great technical depth.

We always meet in the Fourth Avenue Building at PSU. We meet in room FAB-86-01, the large room on the lower level of FAB near the stairs.

Our long term goal at Portland State Aerospace Society is to put a tiny satellite into orbit. New member information is at this link.

http://psas.pdx.edu/NewMembers/

Meeting topics:

"Report on Robotics and Fabrication Technology from MakerFaire San Mateo"

Show and Tell: Bring your robotics projects to show off or ask for help.

Tabletop robot navigation contest.

Monthly meeting.
Topic: "Beyond hobby quadcopters - what's happening with flying robots" by Greg Peek