Welcome back fellow roboteers and hello to 2008! I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Years, I have been trekking in Nepal over the last couple of weeks or so so that is why I have been quiet (silent more like it).

Anyway, I am planning a lot of improvements to the AusRobotics site this year to improve usability and hopefully generate more interest and more of a community feel. Discounting spammers we already have 20+ users and climbing. This year we can easily break 100!

I have a feeling that 2008 is going to be a great year for robotics.
Something about the fact that 8 is 2^3 maybe? Maybe not… Perhaps it’s the fact that the rest of the world seems to have finally realised that robots are awesome and are getting into the game. Only another 50 years and people won’t gape incredulously at me when I tell them what my hobbies are… One day hehe…

I have posted a new forum entry to get feedback on how you would like to improve the site etc. Let me know if you had any great ideas while sitting around drinking during the holidays! I know I had a heap

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