Topics for Chalk Talks
Beginner’s Chalk Talk Topics
- where to start (overview of kits, tips for modifying) – Pete 2/6/2010
- basic electronics (resistors, transistors, etc.) – Monty
- power sources (battery tech)
- system level requirements (spec sheets, important parameters for various parts – motors, etc.)
- microcontrollers – Don
- basic physics – Jeff
- mechanical building techniques – Mark M.
- electrical building techniques
- debugging techniques
- physical computing – Don
- educational robotics – Steve
Advanced Chalk Talk Topics
- iphone robotics – Pete 2/6/2010
- swarm robotics – Monty
- subsumption architecture – Perkowski?
- android robotics – (name of person from Ryan) and Don
- Bluetooth / Zigbee / wireless – Pete
- Advanced physics – kinematics (statics & dynamics) – Tim
- RTOS’s (why use them?) – Mark M.
- Stanford and MIT online lectures?
- Machine vision – Paul B.?
- Open CV – Don
- Sensor interfacing, processing, fusion (GPS, rangers, etc.) – Pete
- FPGAs – Jeff
- Bayesian Particle Filtering part 2 – Bart M.?
