Greetings all,

A lot has been going on over the past week. See a roundup below:

• I went to Hackaday meetup in SF and met Alex Glow, a roving blogger who will review Skoobot. Here is Alex Glow's website: http://www.alexglow.com/
• I met a writer there, named Brian Benchoff, who wrote an article on Hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2018/09/15/the-tiny-pocket-sized-robot-meant-for-hacking/
• I sent a prototype to MickMake, or Mick Hellstrom, a blogger in Australia: https://www.mickmake.com/
• I made this video on final assembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpu6ZjbcuNM&t=1s
• I also added basic voice control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd9lB_ghYAc&t=1s
• I added a web interface to the Javascript control program on the Raspberry Pi.
• I went to WeMake in Newark and did a prototype STEM class (with Skoobots) for kids: https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/si3rXE

Next week, more marketing (ugh). I have installed OpenCV on the Pi for machine vision -and I ordered the pi camera. I also attended an intro on ROS (Robotic Operating System) and I am prepping the pi for that (ROS also interfaces to OpenCV).

I got a Puck from Adafruit. A Puck has BLE and Espruino, a Javascript interrupter for IoT. When my other parts arrive, I will control the Skoobot with the Puck and do something cool, like using the sensors on the Puck to control the Skoobot. Like raising the temperature of the Puck with a blow dryer and making the Skoobot spin faster, or something …

Bill