<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpc59802c7yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><span><span>Hi all,<br></span></span><span><span></span></span><div><br></div><div>This is crossposted to SGVHAK because, well, it's the SGVHAK Rover.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span><span><div><div>Reminder that we have an SGVLUG meeting this Thursday at our usual place, Du-Par's Restaurant and Bakery. <br></div><div><br> </div><div> <a href="https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/258534255/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/258534255/</a><div><div><div><br><div><div>Roger and I are previewing our SCALE 17x talk "The Trouble with Rovers." Feedback welcome.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></span><span><span><span><div id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12171" dir="ltr">---<br id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12172"></div><div id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12173" dir="ltr">TIME: Thursday, Feb 14th, from 7pm to 9pm<br id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12174"></div><div id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12175" dir="ltr"><div id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12176" dir="ltr"><div id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12177" dir="ltr">LOCATION: Du Par's Restaurant and Bakery, 214 S Lake Ave, <span id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12178">Pasadena</span>, <span id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12179">CA</span></div></div></div></span><div><span><div id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12182" dir="ltr">TOPIC: Preview "The Trouble with Rovers<br><div>SPEAKERS: Lan Dang and Roger Cheng</div><div><br></div><div><span>The JPL Open Source Rover is a relatively inexpensive and accessible
project for high school and college classes to exercise mechanical and
electronics and software engineering using parts that could be easily
sourced from hobbyist stores.<br><br>JPL beta-tested their build
instructions at a few schools and with the SGVHAK maker group. The
ultimate goal was to refine the build instructions and grow a community
of experienced builders to help provide support once the rover
documentation and code were open sourced.<br><br><a class="ydpfd1ea185link" href="https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover" title="https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover</a><br><br>We
will go over the experience of the SGVHAK maker group in building the
SGVHAK rover and being inspired to build rovers of our own design. The
SGVHAK maker group built the rover over the period of 3 months while
giving JPL significant feedback and build photos. We diverged from the
original design most significantly in the wheel design, motor selection,
and software.<br><br>We were able to exhibit the SGVHAK rover at SCALE,
the Caltech Science for March, and the DTLA Mini Maker Faire. We were
recently interviewed for the Command_Line Heroes podcast. Building
rovers is a never-ending process. The SGVHAK rover itself is always
under construction. We have plans to add a robot arm, pan-tilt webcam,
and maybe even lidar. Our members have already started coming up with
their own rover designs and builds. All the code and 3D printer files
are on GitHub. Come join us in our rover-building adventures.<br><br>About Lan<br>Lan
Dang is an Operations Engineer with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
specializing in science data systems operations and large scale data
processing. Her contributions to open source focus on community-building
and evangelism. In her spare time, she is active in the San Gabriel
Valley tech community as a leader of the SGVLUG and its sister group,
the SGVHAK hardware hacking group, mentors new hires at work as well as
local high school and college students, and volunteers with various
STEAM groups and events. She is the volunteer coordinator for the SCALE
A/V team.<br><br>About Roger<br>An active member of the San Gabriel
Valley Hardware Hackers group (SGVHAK) and member of Linux User's Group
(SGVLUG) Roger is interested in many topics around the intersection of
mechanical hardware and intelligent software.</span><br></div></div></span></div></span></span></span><span><span><span><span></span><span><div id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12186" dir="ltr"><br id="ydp4305a2a8yiv0693878071ydp6600b0c6yiv1913235918ydpad8b5edeyiv9149872417ydp2eeac06eyiv6566734398yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502090552807_12187"></div></span></span></span></span><span></span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Lan<br></div><div id="ydpc59802c7yiv1208552633"><div><div class="ydpc59802c7yiv1208552633ydp66a33755yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"></div></div></div></div></body></html>