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No meetups for June, July and August

At the moment we don't have anyone able/willing to organize meetups for the summer. So, with that in mind I'm officially cancelling the meetups for June, July and August. If someone among you is wanting to organize one or more meetup then by all means, send us an email. For those of you with robots If you're wanting to keep making progress send us an email and we can suggest next steps for you. If there are a number of you interested then perhaps you can get together. Let us know and we can put you in touch with one another.

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April Meetup - Change of Date, Time and Location

We have a unique opportunity to be part of this year’s ISA Automation EXPO and Conference (http://aecalberta.ca/). So we have changed this month’s meetup to Wednesday, April 20 @ 5 PM at the Edmonton Expo Centre, Halls F & G.

The EXPO will feature 175 exhibitors (and us) and will be free to attend. The meetup will be held after the networking function, which will be held between 3 and 5pm. This is a great opportunity to connect with industry professionals and see some of the automation products that are offered right now. 

Entrance to the Expo, the mixer and our meetup are free.

The meetup will largely focus on presenting ROS to a new audience. The tentative schedule is:

- What is ROS? What is ROS-Industrial? - Amazon picking challenge (Camilo) - Bento Arm (Craig) - Robot visual fixtures in industry context

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March 17, 2016 Meetup - RPi2 and the physical world

This Thursday we will examine on how to program the Pi to interact with the physical world.

We will focus on some of the basics of interacting with the GPIO pins using the python programming language. No prior knowledge of python will be required. The examples that will be given are:

how to read button input,

turn on an LED,

and read an I2C sensor.

The meetup will be this Thursday March 17, at 6:30 pm at the StartupEdmonton headquarters located at 10359 104 St NW, Edmonton.

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Important February Meetup

This month’s meetup is Thursday, Feb 18, 2016, 6:30 PM @ Startup Edmonton.

We are going to have a meeting to discuss the future of the group. 

Hope to see you there.

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Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation

Presentation on Reinforcement Learning by Craig Sherstan from January’s meetup.

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January 21, 2016 - Building Robots that learn and adapt

Thursday, Jan 21, 2016, 6:30 PM @ Startup Edmonton

This month I will give an introduction to reinforcement learning. Reinforcement learning is a branch of artificial intelligence which looks at learning how to achieve goals. It lets us build robots that learn from interaction with the world around them and with people and even other robots. In my opinion, it is one of the key pieces for producing true (general) AI. Also, it's an incredibly simple concept to grasp, so don't worry that it will be over your head if you don't have a degree in math :) We will also have a few robot demos using reinforcement learning from Brendan Bennett. Following the talk we'll have some time to work on our robots, so bring your kit. We'll see if we can get driving the robots with a joystick. 

You can find the presentation here: http://1drv.ms/1LspDiA

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December Meetup

Thursday, December 17, 6:30 PM @ Startup Edmonton.

This month we’re keeping things super simple. We’ll do a walk through of Oscar’s tutorial on getting Raspberry Pi 2 up and running with the GoPiGo.

Following, we’ll have an open work time where we can help out with some troubleshooting. So bring your robots and laptops if you’re interested.

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Here’s a link for Diego’s talk on ROS on Android