Editing Tulsa electronics club

Welcome to the Tulsa electronics club wiki pages.

We build amazing things.
Often with lots of blinky lights.


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[http://8bitsystem.com/TEC/TECpowersupply.pdf "Bench-Top Power Supply"]
by James Littlejohn
for the Tulsa Electronics Club

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Should the Tulsa electronics club remain independent,
or should it join up with the dorkbot network?

What do we need to do to get Tulsa -- or even Oklahoma -- on this map:
http://makezine.com/groups
?

What do we need to do to get Tulsa -- or even Oklahoma -- on this map:
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_People
?

What do we need to do to get Tulsa -- or even Oklahoma -- on this map:
[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=117099291054388532447.0004409098b1c5b712553 RepRap Users Map]

What do we need to do to get Tulsa -- on
the National Robotics Week map
http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/events
(I see Broken Arrow is already on that map -- Yay!)

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== Robotics groups ==

=== Tulsa robotics groups ===

[http://www.usfirst.org FIRST Robotics Challenge] is always looking for mentors and volunteers to help with the teams and competitions.

Dr. Jack Sellers is apparently the primary coordinator and promoter of the FIRST activities in Oklahoma.

Lane Matheson is apparently the contact person for FIRST robotics at MHS TEAM (Memorial High School -- The Engineering Academy at Memorial).

Dr. Gerry Kane at TU is apparently the contact person for about robotics-related TU courses, and also about TU teachers and students that help mentor K-12 students in the FIRST Robotics Challenge, and the Razor Hall robotics lab.

Tonya Scott is apparently the Oklahoma contact person for FIRST Tech Challenge (formerly FIRST Vex Challenge).

Teddy Wyatt at Tulsa Tech apparently is also involved in in the FIRST Tech Challenge.

David Cary (918)813-2279 wants to see people build cool and amazing and possibly even useful things. He used to hang out with the Portland PARTs group before moving to Tulsa. In 2012, David is building a [[Projects#RepRap | RepRap]] which might be useful for fabbing prototype robot parts, and which apparently itself technically meets some definitions of a "[[robot]]".

Is [http://www.bestinc.org/ BESTRobotics] doing anything in Oklahoma?

=== other robot groups ===
''(Perhaps this section should move to its own page?)''
''(Perhaps move to [[open-source robot]]?)''

* [http://www.portlandrobotics.org/ PARTS: the Portland Area Robotics Society]
* [http://www.seattlerobotics.org/ SRS: the Seattle Robotics Society]
* [http://wiki.therobotgroup.org/ The Robot Group of Austin] (wiki)
* [http://www.hbrobotics.org/ The HomeBrew Robotics Club of Silicon Valley]
* [http://www.circpeoria.org/ Central Illinois Robotics Club]
* [http://www.botlanta.org/ Atlanta Hobby Robot Club]
* [http://www.dprg.org/ Dallas Personal Robotics Group]
* [http://www.techgeek.com/ Techgeek]
* [http://www.robotcombat.com/ Robot Combat]


... and probably many others that I would list here if only I knew about them.

=== Other groups near Tulsa that build cool things that may include electronics ===

* Tulsa Open Source Hardware: [http://tosh.wikia.com the Tulsa Open Source Hardware Wiki]; [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tulsa-open-source-hardware Tulsa Open Source Hardware group]. "Meetings will be every 2nd Saturday of the month. They will take place at the Tulsa Fab Lab on 7th and Lewis.  If you have a topic you want to bring up at the meeting, let me know.  All meetings are from 1pm to 3pm unless otherwise posted."

* [http://www.habitat-tulsa.org/ Tulsa Habitat for Humanity]
* Engineers Without Borders
* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (often lots of students and professors from ORU, TU, and OSU show up at a meeting)
* [http://www.tulsarocketry.org/ Tulsa Rocketry]
* [http://www.tulsahamradio.org/ Tulsa Repeater Organization, Inc.] (ham radio)
* [http://www.w5bbs.us/ the Broken Arrow Amateur Radio Club website]
* [http://reprap.org/wiki/RUG/Oklahoma Oklahoma RepRap User Group]
* [http://www.geeksok.com/ GeeksOK] ... at least one member is building a [[Projects#RepRap | RepRap ]].
* [http://www.tcs.org/ Tulsa Computer Society] is building a [http://www.tcs.org/hotspot.htm map of Tulsa WiFi Hotspots]

Whatever happened to the Tulsa group that was building a robot for BattleBots?

== local supplier ==

Should we make a list of local robot parts [[supplier]] in or near Tulsa here,
analogous to the way
[http://www.10bitworks.com/wiki/doku.php/localsupplies the 10BitWorks hackerspace community lists the local San Antonio suppliers]?

* http://www.affiliatedelectronics.com/ 8901 East Admiral Place, TULSA OK
* http://www.graybar.com/ 12535 East 52nd Street, TULSA OK -- fiber optic cable, Stahlin [[enclosures]], etc.
* http://rulecompany.com/ 616 S Rockford Ave, TULSA OK
* RadioShack 
** 2730 South Harvard
** 4965 South Peoria
** Garnett Plaza, 11613 E 31 Street
** 15 South Sheridan Road
** 8518 East 71st Street
** Tulsa Hills Shopping Ctr, 7454 S Olympia Ave West
** 9591 S Riverside Dr #2
** 10035 South Memorial
** 40 South Memorial Drive
* [http://www.naturalevolution.com/main.htm Natural Evolution - Recycling & E-Waste] 5719 East 13th Street
* ... and probably many others that would save me time and effort if only I knew about them.