Southern California - Inland Empire - San Bernardino
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Robotics and Technology Club
Skills, Technologies, Disciplines Within Robotics
This list shows skill areas you will meet, learn, and master as you build your unique set of robots through your hobby and professional robotics career!
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Project management
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Chassis design, structural engineering, precise measurements
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Inverse kinetics for robotic movement
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Effectors and other "hands" for robots
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Weight distribution and traction for racing robots
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paint, artwork, the "cosmetic" effects on human-like or android robots
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Materials engineering, plastics, acrylics, aluminum, fiberboard
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3D design and CAD software, parametric drafting
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3D Printing
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Adhesives and gluing
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Fasteners; standard and metric measurements
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Milling and CNC
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Welding
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Analog and digital electronics, Ohm's law and theory
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Multimeters and other electronic test tools
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Electric battery charging and maintenance
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Soldering
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Software development, especially in C, C++ and Python
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state machines, interrupts, sensor input integration
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real-time systems, libraries, algorithms
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Machine learning, neural networks, and artificial intelligence - as applicable to robots
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When to use a microprocessor versus a microcontroller
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Servos and PWM control
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DC motor controllers and design
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Brushed and brushless electric motors
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Linux and other operating systems
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Bluetooth, WiFi, I2C, TCP/IP and networking; system integration
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Cloud AI systems: Google's Tensorflow, Amazon's AWS, and Microsoft's Azure AI and Connect();
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Developing Android phone apps for robot remote control
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Processor capacity planning: how to select the best one(s) for the robot
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Sensor technologies, IR, ultrasonic, LIDAR, switches and others
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Voice recognition and text-to-speech
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Video image recognition and image processing
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Circuit design; circuit board design and production
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Working well with others and presenting your robot projects!