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Sun 9/25 Newsletter! Mon 9/26 Weekly AGRV Meeting – 5pm, Dolve 204 AGVR Programming (right after weekly meeting) HOMECOMING WEEK Tues 9/27 AGRV Mechanical: 12pm, Dolve 123 AGVR Electrical: 9am, Dolve 123 ICCC Meeting: 8pm, Dolve 215 Snowplow: 7pm, TBD Wed 9/28 VGD: 7pm QBB 106 LAST DAY FOR APPAREL ORDERS Quadcopter: 6pm, Dolve 215 Thurs 9/29 BR LGM – 7:30, Dolve 215 (Fundraising Meeting after) Ri3D First Meeting: 6:30pm, Dolve 215 AGVR Programming: 1pm, Dolve 123 Officer Meeting: 7:30pm, CoE 201 Fri 9/30 Programming Palooza (NRMC) – 5:30pm -11, Dolve 201 Sat 10/1 Art by Eric Joyner The Piqued Geek Bison Robotics September 25, 2016 Vol. 2, Issue 4 Weekly Watts Up:. Find the BR Calendar! Discover BR GroupMe! Access the BR Calendar right HERE! Also, make sure that you are a part of the General Bison Robotics GroupMe as well as any GroupMes for other projects in which you are interested! Contact [email protected] for the general one and the project lead for the project ones! JOIN TRELLO FOR MORE OPPORTUNITIES! Trello is an amazing organizational tool that we use as a club to keep track of all our to-do lists etc. This is also where you can see what opportunities are available in the club to help you get more involved! To get on the Trello board (IT IS FREE), create an account at trello.com, and send [email protected] your username! If you want to learn how to use Trello, check out the Member Guide! THE ENGINEERING AND TECH EXPO IS COMING! On THIS Wednesday, September 28 th from 10am-3pm in the FargoDome is the event for which most of us have been waiting…. THE Expo. Make sure that you are preparing yourself even as early as now to ensure that you put your best foot forward to set you up for career success! There are a variety of ways to get ready: vamp up your resume, construct and perfect a concrete introduction, scope out the companies at the Expo with the app, and more! Fun with Fundraising! There was recently a meeting to discuss the fundraising plan for the club. If you are interested in helping out with this in any way (eg. Talking to sponsors, planning/running events, etc.), be sure to attend! Also, if you have any potential sponsorship ideas or business connections, email them to [email protected]! FUNding for Battle Bots and Quadcopter A group of BR members met with Student Government this past week to talk about the funding of both Battle Bots and Quadcopter. Student Government will vote on this today, so we will be hearing back shortly about this matter. Upcoming Events: Sept. 26 th – 30 th : Homecoming! Sept. 28 th : Engineering and Tech Expo, FargoDome, 10-3pm Bison Brainstorm: Oct. 5 th , 6-8pm, MU Ballroom FLL Training (for mentors only): Oct. 6 th , 3:30-6:30pm Large Group Meeting: Next: October 6 th Group Updates Club Updates AND MORE! Check out… Twitter Facebook Instagram Vine BR Website Trello If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Swanson at [email protected]! Thanks!

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Page 1: Bison Robotics September 25, 2016 Vol. 2, Issue 4 The ... · Art by Eric Joyner The Piqued Geek Bison Robotics September 25, 2016 Vol. 2, Issue 4 ... vamp up your resume, construct

Sun 9/25

Newsletter!

Mon 9/26

Weekly AGRV Meeting – 5pm, Dolve 204

AGVR Programming (right after weekly

meeting)

HOMECOMING WEEK

Tues 9/27

AGRV Mechanical: 12pm, Dolve 123

AGVR Electrical: 9am,

Dolve 123

ICCC Meeting: 8pm, Dolve 215

Snowplow: 7pm, TBD

Wed 9/28

VGD: 7pm QBB 106

LAST DAY FOR APPAREL ORDERS

Quadcopter: 6pm, Dolve

215

Thurs 9/29

BR LGM – 7:30, Dolve 215

(Fundraising Meeting after)

Ri3D First Meeting: 6:30pm, Dolve 215

AGVR Programming:

1pm, Dolve 123

Officer Meeting: 7:30pm, CoE 201

Fri 9/30

Programming Palooza (NRMC) – 5:30pm -11,

Dolve 201

Sat 10/1

Art by Eric Joyner

The Piqued Geek

Bison Robotics September 25, 2016 Vol. 2, Issue 4

Weekly Watts Up:.

Find the BR Calendar! Discover BR GroupMe!

Access the BR Calendar right HERE! Also, make sure that you are a part of the General Bison

Robotics GroupMe as well as any GroupMes for other projects in which you are interested!

Contact [email protected] for the general one and the project lead for the project ones!

JOIN TRELLO FOR MORE OPPORTUNITIES!

Trello is an amazing organizational tool that we use as a club to keep track of all our to-do lists

etc. This is also where you can see what opportunities are available in the club to help you get

more involved! To get on the Trello board (IT IS FREE), create an account at trello.com, and send

[email protected] your username! If you want to learn how to use Trello, check out the

Member Guide!

THE ENGINEERING AND TECH EXPO IS COMING!

On THIS Wednesday, September 28th from 10am-3pm in the FargoDome is the event for which

most of us have been waiting…. THE Expo. Make sure that you are preparing yourself even as

early as now to ensure that you put your best foot forward to set you up for career success!

There are a variety of ways to get ready: vamp up your resume, construct and perfect a concrete

introduction, scope out the companies at the Expo with the app, and more!

Fun with Fundraising!

There was recently a meeting to discuss the fundraising plan for the club. If you are interested in

helping out with this in any way (eg. Talking to sponsors, planning/running events, etc.), be sure

to attend! Also, if you have any potential sponsorship ideas or business connections, email them

to [email protected]!

FUNding for Battle Bots and Quadcopter

A group of BR members met with Student Government this past week to talk about the funding

of both Battle Bots and Quadcopter. Student Government will vote on this today, so we will be

hearing back shortly about this matter.

Upcoming Events:

Sept. 26th – 30th: Homecoming!

Sept. 28th: Engineering and Tech Expo,

FargoDome, 10-3pm

Bison Brainstorm: Oct. 5th, 6-8pm, MU

Ballroom

FLL Training (for mentors only): Oct. 6th,

3:30-6:30pm

Large Group Meeting:

Next: October 6th

Group Updates

Club Updates

AND MORE!

Check out… Twitter Facebook Instagram Vine BR Website Trello

If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Swanson at [email protected]! Thanks!

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Project Updates

September 25, 2016 Vol. 2, Issue 4

Bison Robotics

NRMC Contact: [email protected]

Quadcopter

Contact: [email protected]

The team is now registered for the

competition! There is now also

another opportunity to program

another snowplow, so if you are

interested, email Brady ASAP! All

members of the snowplow group need

to have access to Auxiliary Enterprise.

Shop training signups for this are

outside the Mechanical Engineering

office for September 30th.

At the last meeting, members

discussed software options, and will

either be using Unity or Unreal Engine.

Regular meetings for this group in

general are held every Wednesday at

7pm in the QBB. Sam is stepping down,

and so the group will be electing a new

project lead. If you are interested in

this position, let her know, and prepare

a presentation for the next meeting,

which is this Wednesday.

Upcoming Volunteer Events:

Bison Brainstorm: Oct. 5th, 6-8pm, MU

Ballroom

FLL Training (for mentors only): Oct.

6th, 3:30-6:30pm

Minnesota Robotics Invitational

(MRI): Oct 14-15 in Roseville, MN

BEST Robotics Mall Day (Oct 15 at

West Acres Mall)

BEST Robotics Competition Days (Oct

21-22 at NDSU)

Please email Jordyn for more

information if you are interested!

More details and signups for each of

these will be sent out via email as the

dates get closer!

This group is essentially a Learn-to-

Code group that deals mainly with C

and C++. This group will present

amazing opportunities to and benefit

members majoring in computer

engineering or otherwise! ICCC now

has biweekly meetings!! Contact Joe

with any questions or concerns!

Snowplow

Contact: [email protected]

The two quadcopter projects are going well. The innovation quad is still in the brainstorm stage, but great progress is being made! As for the racing quad, the group just recently received funding, so the process of building this one can commence as well! The next group meeting for the quads will be October 5th at 6pm in Dolve 117.

NRMC has completed the bucket

design, and the electrical subgroup is

making admirable progress! If you

would like to learn more about NRMC

(or any of the projects), check out the

BR website! Also, Friday

Programming Parties have

commenced!

Volunteering Contact: [email protected]

Game Development Contact: [email protected]

ICCC (Learn Code) Contact: [email protected]

Miscellaneous/Other:

Any questions? Lost on where to begin or how to do something or even what there

is to do? Check out the Bison Robotics Member Guide! This will be your best non-

human friend; I promise you. If you have something that you think should be added

to it, email [email protected]!

“Roads were made for journeys not destinations.”

- Confucius CHECK THIS OUT.

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Battle Bots Contact: [email protected]

Ri3D Contact: [email protected]

AGVR Contact: [email protected]

The project lead for Battle Bots has

been decided for this academic year!

Kevin King will now be heading up all

bot-battling efforts on the Bison

Robotics front. Last Monday, the

group began the brainstorming part

of the design process and submitted

its budget to Student Government for

reimbursement review! The next

meeting is Oct. 3rd in a computer lab

TBD.

Robot in 3 Days is one of BR’s most

intense events being that members

are tasked with creating a fully-

functional robot in a mere 72 hours.

This event will take place in January,

but planning and prep is starting now!

The first meeting was this past

Thursday; keep an eye out for more

updates, and join the BlackBoard

group if you are interested!

The group is almost done with the

mechanical additions to Hank, the

robot. Programmers are working on

coding the DC and stepper drivers

currently. After this is complete, the

electrical group will move on to

working on these. Weekly meetings

are 5pm on Mondays in Dolve 204.

Stay piqued, geeks.