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Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First ‘Feathering’ Flight

Posted on May 25, 2011 by dkohn96

From: PopSci May 5, 2011 Virgin Galactic just keeps on ticking off the milestones on its way to becoming the first commercial company to take tourists on high-altitude flights to suborbital space and return them safely through the atmosphere to … Continue reading →

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Therapy Robot Lecture

Posted on May 25, 2011 by dkohn96

[Update: 4:00pm 5/25/2011 – canceled due to weather] “PARO”, the therapeutic baby seal robot invented by Dr. Takanori Shibata of Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, will be on display for viewing and interactions with guests on … Continue reading →

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ION’s Mini-Urban Challenge

Posted on May 24, 2011 by dkohn96

The Mini-Urban Challenge is a national competition sponsored by The Institute of Navigation and the United States Air Force Research Laboratory that challenges high school students to design and operate a robotic car to autonomously navigate a LEGO® city. The … Continue reading →

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Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web

Posted on May 15, 2011 by dkohn96

Had to share this “TOP 40 Arduino Projects” Link with everyone!

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Wii Remote .NET

Posted on May 6, 2011 by dkohn96

Two seniors (Brian MAcArthur and Stephen McKinney) at the University of Memphis Engineering Technology Department created a program to use the Wii remote with a Microbot TeachMover Roboto. They started with WiimoteLib which is a .NET managed library for using … Continue reading →

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UofM Programming Challenge / Robotics

Posted on May 1, 2011 by dkohn96

Yesterday, UofM Computer Science department held its “Programming Challenge” Competition. This year they changed the format a bit and added ROBOTICS to the competition. They used Lego RCX robotics and programmed them with LeJOS. They had around 80 students compete … Continue reading →

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FreeScale Bot (Followup)

Posted on May 1, 2011 by dkohn96

Finally found the info on the FSLBOT (FreeScale Bot) I mentioned in my March 10th Stuff from Robotics Summit post (although it was called Freebot not FSLBOT in that post). For full info goto http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=FSLBOT But here is the summary: … Continue reading →

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Robot Snowplow

Posted on April 17, 2011 by dkohn96

A little late for this past winter, but a great idea!

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Develop for Android

Posted on April 13, 2011 by dkohn96

Do you want to develop for the Android OS but are weak on programming skills? Try App Inventor.

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Meet IOIO – I/O for Android

Posted on April 13, 2011 by dkohn96

From: http://ytai-mer.blogspot.com/2011/04/meet-ioio-io-for-android.html By: Ytai I’m very excited to announce the launch of a new product I’ve been working on for the past months! IOIO (pronounced: yo-yo) is a product which lets you connect electronic circuits to an Android device and … Continue reading →

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