Propeller presentation @ Seattle Robotics Society

mpark

At this month's SRS meeting I gave a presentation on the Propeller. I ran a few demos and I think people were generally impressed by the Propeller's power. Unfortunately, I was not very successful in explaining the whole hub business, at least judging by the questions folks were asking. And my attempt at explaining Spin and the interpretation process just caused more confusion.

I was hoping to make a few converts, but now I'm just hoping I didn't scare anyone away!

In retrospect I should have stuck to demos and glossed over the nitty-gritty details. For an intro to the Propeller, it would probably have been better just to whet people's appetites.

RossH

@mpark,

I wouldn't worry too much. If you piqued a few people's interest, then in such an audience they will probably be intrigued enough to go and investigate for themselves. And then they'll be hooked!

Ross.

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ElectricAye

mpark said...
.... I ran a few demos and I think people were generally impressed by the Propeller's power. Unfortunately, I was not very successful in explaining the whole hub business....

You know what they say: actions speak louder than words. If you had some good demos, that's all they will remember. Six months from now, people in the audience will be showing you their Prop creations and talking at you like the Prop is something you have never seen before.

mpark

Thanks for the encouragement. I'm sure some people got it, just not as many as I would have liked.

Sapieha

Hi mpark.

Even ONE is more as nothing. You first impression CAN be that it is only few BUT You need consider as YOU even have to sowed ideas in them that not show any interest.

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Christoffer J

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Sapieha

Ken Gracey

mpark,

We thank you for doing this presentation. It's often difficult to read a group's response, and there's a lot to discuss in 30 minutes around the Propeller.

I'm sure the exposure was positive.

Thanks for including the Prop!

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Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

This is an area where Parallax's marketing department can help out. BTW, I've heard Michael speak (at UPEW'09), so I'm sure his SRS presentation was excellent. But for other, less gifted presenters, a downloadable presentation kit, including PowerPoint slides that outline the major talking points, would be very helpful. I'm sure that, by now, Parallax's own presenters have a feel for what resonates with an audience and what does not. Distilling this knowledge for use by other speakers would go a long way towards enhancing the presentation and keeping it on message when promoting the Propeller.

-Phil

Sapieha

Hi Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Nice Idea

Regads

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Nothing is impossible, there are only different degrees of difficulty.
For every stupid question there is at least one intelligent answer.
Don't guess - ask instead.
If you don't ask you won't know.
If your gonna construct something, make it·as simple as·possible yet as versatile as posible.


Sapieha

bill190

I can get people to understand things sometimes if I convert electrical things into "horses and barns/circular walks" or "water pipes and valves".

These are things they are familiar with and can "visualize".

But sometimes even·that does not even work and my explanation winds up in total confusion!

potatohead

I have found telling them what it can do, and what the value of that is helps with getting them to how the Propeller actually does it.

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