[TriLUG] [trianglearduino:1019] Re: [Splat Space] Joint Triangle Area Robotics/Arduino(embedded computing) Interest meeting Monday May 6th

Phillip Rhodes motley.crue.fan at gmail.com
Thu May 2 17:36:54 EDT 2013


> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Nathan Yinger <nathan.yinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now I'm curious about what causes a sudden, unexpected, and dramatic
> increase in robotics interest.

Well, I can explain my scenario, although it may be somewhat unique.
First, let me say that, while I have not attended any TAR meetings to
date, I have been interested in robotics for a long time anyway.  But
it was casual interest of the general "I'm a geek and like building
stuff" nature.

But now, I have a startup that I've founded, and we are working on
manufacturing as a big target market for our software.  Once I made
that decision in my head, it was natural to start looking at the
manufacturing vertical more closely, which led to reading more about
industrial automation, robotics, process control, etc.   And now
seeing the overlap between two of my interests, and seeing that they
intersect in an area that I had not given much thought to before,
suddenly has me really excited to dive deeper into the robotics world
myself.   It won't directly impact our business (probably), but
increasing my knowledge of that world, even at a #DIY level, probably
can't hurt.  And since there *is* some #opensource Industrial
Automation software out there, I guess in the back of my mind I'm
chewing on the possibility of building a few small robots of my own to
simulate some actual industrial machines, just so we can play around
with some ideas for integrations and what-not.

Like I said, kind of a weird scenario, but what can ya do? Heck, maybe
I was just quietly looking for a convenient excuse to get all jazzed
up about robots, who knows?  :-)


Phil



More information about the TriLUG mailing list