Miami Valley, Ohio Robotics Club

If I lived near Dayton I'd come!

In addition to posts here, you might consider starting a Yahoo group for your club. You can post messages there, and interested folks can sign up to be members.

Speaking of Reprap, I once saw in action an FDM to create some amazing

-- Gordon

Hello,

I live in Dayton too, I started this group

I haven't seen evidence that there is large hobby robotics following in the Miami Valley area, but I do know a few people that are.

Joe McKibben

You have to let people know about it, and the timing has to be right. The interest appears highest in tech centers of the country, and around colleges that specialize in technical courses. It'll be hard to start any club during the summer. At the start of the new school year shoot off some e-mails to the department heads of the nearby high schools and colleges to let them know about the group.

Post your own projects and "seed" the board with your own postings. It's not exactly cool to go to one board and lure away users to another, but there's nothing wrong in inviting cooperation and interest.

Be sure to get your group added on all the FAQs and link lists that are out there.

-- Gordon

Oh, I am sorry I did not mean to try to lure anybody away from this board, I'm kind of new to this forum/message board thing. I was just showing I was trying to do the same thing and looking for people who lived in Dayton that were interested in Robotics.

I do apologize though, I just thought it was neat somebody else kind of had the same idea I did. You had suggested starting a Yahoo group and I was just saying that I had started one in Google Groups and we have a few members already that live in the Dayton area.

How do I go about getting my group added to theses FAQs?

Sorry again and Thanks, Joe McKibben

Sorry if I gave that impression! I didn't mean to suggest you were.

What I meant was in the context of publicizing your board it's usually OK to venture into other boards as long as it's not too "spammish." On the one hand you need to do publicity, on the other you need to remain a member of good standing in these other forums, so you don't want to get booted out. C.R.M. is a global resource so publicizing your local group every now and then here could hardly be a bother to anyone.

The FAQ authors are in the FAQ itself; shoot off a quick e-mail noting you'd like to be added.

There are also some Web sites that list local users groups. Do a Y, G, or MSN search and you'll turn these up. Send them an e-mail with your particulars.

-- Gordon

Cool,

Thanks for the info.

Speaking of that RepRad Fabricator. I just received my Popular Science magazine in the mail today and it has an article about the same type of thing in it. It gives a website

It looks pretty cool. A machine that can make about anything. It seems that it would be pretty useful for building robots. You wont have to worry about having a myriad of machine tools just one single device for all of your fabricating needs.

Thanks, Joe McKibben

I live in Bellbrook (South of Dayton). I have been looking for a robot club close to home. I have a full machine shop set up in my garage. I just finished my 3rd robot and I am now working on turning my Enco milling machine into a CNC mill. contact me at snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com

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