pointer to replacement forum ...

Although there is no shortage of robotics forums on the Net - pretty much
every manufacturer and a development platform of any significance has one
- you may take a look at the (mostly) spam-free gateway to THIS very group
@ roboticscommunity.com
Hope you can use it.
Cheers,
DA

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I would have replied via the forum interface, but regs require a 15 day
lockdown (no posts) after registration ... spam is once again diminishing
the web experience for those who don't abuse it (sigh).

Thanks DA for your reply.

Cheers,
Rob.

Some of us who used to post here wound up in other forums, such as
Seattle Robotics Society's and PARTs. After both places suggesting I
take my advanced discussions elsewhere, so they'd have less message
traffic, I created a Yahoo group, AdvancedRobotics.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AdvancedRobotics/

"Any discussion of robotics topics welcome. A place to direct detailed
discussions too long or indepth for other lists. For serious yet civil
thinkers who want to see robotics advance."

While we're still growing, we have some pretty lively discussions.

Randy M. Dumse

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On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, RMDumse wrote:

I'm browsing this forum now ... A pity that this group is in decline,
however ... nothing is easier than a usenet newsgroup, in my opinion, and
but for the spammers ... all would be good.

Cheers,
Rob Sciuk.
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   I'm perusing posts, I'll definitely look into it more.


   I recall Gordon's board during the splorge, I registered and lurked
a little bit. He was really clear that it was only a temporary thing
for while the splorge lasted, and sure enough he finally took it down.

   The spam doesn't look "too bad" to me in terms of the absolute
number of posts (dismissing for the moment the fact that any and all
spam is bad), but spam makes up about half the posts because of the
fact that legitimate posts are so dissapointingly few. I agree, Usenet
is still a (technically) very viable medium for forums, but many
newsgroups have so little traffic thesedays.

Rob:

Here is the list of open RSS feeds I have found for robotics groups
so far:

http://robotguy.net/blog/feed
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/ORE_bits/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/sfrsa/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/SDRS-List/rss
http://www.robots-dreams.com/index.rdf
http://www.societyofrobots.com/rss_SoR.xml
http://groups.google.com/group/hbrobotics/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml?numP
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/tcrobots/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/vancouverrobotics/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/beginnersrobots/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/sharcbots/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/RSSC-list/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/sorcgroup/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/robot_sig/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/pittrobotsociety/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/IEEE_RAS_SCV_Chapter/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/botbuilders/rss
http://groups.google.com/group/calpolyrobotics/feed/rss_v2_0_topics.xml?numP
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/RogueBots/rss
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/AdvancedRobotics/rss

There a number of semi-active robotics forums that have closed
archives and no active RSS feed.  I further subscribe to:

   Twin Cities Robotics Group (Minniapolis/St. Paul)
      <http://www.tcrobots.org>

   Front Range Robotics (Northern Denver area)
      <http://frontrangerobotics.org/>

I should mention:

   Dallas Personal Robotics Group (Dallas)
      <http://www.dprg.org>

although I am not signed up for that one.

It might be constructive for people to list suggestions here.

-Wayne


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On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, waynegramlich wrote:


Ahhh ... thanks, Wayne ... a keeper, I'll tuck this away in my robotics
folder ...

Spam@ControlQ.com wrote:

[snippage]

Rob:

You are welcome!

-Wayne

Spam@ControlQ.com wrote:

My temporary forum was to get people through the splog attack of a year
or so back. After the splog died down I removed the forum, and asked
folks to come back here.

Every now and then I come back here, shake my head, and wonder where
everyone has gone. Is it the economy? Lack of interest in robotics? Body
odor? What??

Anyway, as Randy and some of the others have said, there are plenty of
product and application specific forums that offer some nice
communities. For example, if you're into the Arduino, there's the
"official" forum at

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

and others elsewhere. (I just lurk on these, having no time for anything
fun these days.)

-- Gordon

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Gordon McComb wrote:

I'm enjoying your regular submissions to Servo.  Frankly, it is your book,
and basic philosophy about parts sourcing which I found so appealing in
the robotics hobby ... that and the idea of seeing software take flight in
the real world, freed from the bonds of database and web sites ... 8-).

Hopefully you won't turn your love for the sport of robotics into work ...
at least to the point where it ceases to be fun ...

Cheers,
Rob.

Spam@ControlQ.com wrote:

Not doing much of anything robots related these days. I'm now writing
applications software, related to my "old" profession of video --
current project is a program that creates Flash video players on the
fly. I enjoy the challenge of it all, but there's always one more thing
to do, and one more thing after that, and one more thing...

Anyway, it keeps me off the street and out of trouble.

-- Gordon