2007-12-04

Minutes

Meeting started on time at 1500 hours, and we moved from Room 8 to Lab 2. We discussed ideas for the direction of the club.
  • Electronics and Circuit Boards
  • Taking apart and Studying Computers
  • Animation
  • Robotics
  • Web Design
We discussed the fact that we need officers and will should start the nomination process.
We briefly discussed how computers boot up, and whether or not a machine will boot up if it has no memory installed (no... it won't). And I gave a demonstration using one of the Linux Laptops, showing the POST (Power On Self Test).
We began to make a simple webpage using HTML. It had a background image, 1 jpeg image, and 2 animated gifs from other sites. It had different fonts and font colours. And it had some hard-breaks, center tags, and bold text. It also had a link to another website.
We also discussed various Animation Software, mainly: I showed one of the students how to use KPovray (A POV Ray Front-End made for KDE) to begin basic design of a scene. We made a sphere and were wondering how to make a golf-ball. It's not as easy as it looks.
One of the students explored the use of the Robot in the Aggie Tech Club. One of the goals is to begin programming the Robot using a machine that we put together.
The last thing we did was create a mission statement (see blog below).
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