[Robotgroup] Building real robots

[Leslie Filip]

Glenn,

On Sep 8, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Glenn Currie wrote:

> Anyone interested in building "real" robots let me know.
> kd5mfw at arrl.net
> Please include a definition of 'robot' and 'real'.
>
> We only know what we interpret from our senses.
> Don't step into the philosophical black hole of
> 'knowing absolute truth'.  All is relative.
> You can choose your your friends, but not
> your relatives.
>
> Word football.
> One of a sequence of  sequential non sequiturs, for you to  
> contemplate.
>
> People can meet where they please, and call themselves,
> what they want.

No question about it, people can call themselves anything they want.  
Whether or not the name accurately reflects what they do is a  
different matter, and the one I have been wrestling with ever since I  
realized The Robot Group is not specifically a robotics group. I  
acknowledge that my assumption was my own error.

>
> If it gets legal...
>
> The Robot Group Inc. is a State of Texas Corporation,
> and is known to the IRS as a 501(c)3 tax exempt corporation.
>
> It would be a waste of time an money to attempt to change the legal
> name

I have no idea what a simple amendment would cost. Can anyone with  
facts address this question?

> and standing of the corporation.

To what "standing" do you refer?

> Start you own group if you like.

I have no desire to start a robotics group since I already have my  
hands full with my ongoing fab lab project. Ironically it will have  
much to do with general technology and art, but a robotics group it  
is not.

> Take off the self applied handcuffs, pick up some tools, and build
> some robots.

You don't start fabricating umbrellas while standing out in the rain.  
I am working on the infrastructure first, and I will share it when it  
gets far enough along.

Les


>
> You could probably get away with flashing a fake
> "The Robot Group Inc." badge, as long as you don't get
> caught.  But isn't that the modus operandi for humans.
> Stick that in you simulator.
>
> -Glenn
>
>
>
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