Lophilo, Swarm Robots and R2D2

Xinchejian hackerspace is still settling in to their new space, but there was a lot of activity on the weekend!

Things that I noticed included many active projects undergoing design work, coding and assembling a quadcopter (commiserations on the maiden flight crash) and first timers playing with Arduino.

Highlights for me were:

• getting hands on a real Lophilo – this development hardware looks extremely professional, flexible, and is not “vapourware”… can’t wait to own one!
• Swarm Robots meeting – lots of really interesting ideas
• Swarm wiki
• Mailing list
• plus you do need to be a paid up member to participate (gotta pay the rent!)
• R2D2 was at the swarm meeting – just too cute not to give a special mention