Category Archives: Memphis Robotics

E-Day a Huge Success

Commercial Appeal Website Photo by Brandon Dill Commercial Appeal All part of the show at U of M open house, Collierville High School students Chelsea Chambers, 15 (second from left to right); Autumn Woods, 15; Emma Sedlacek, 15; Ashley Holler, … Continue reading

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Extra Credit: Houston High Robotics

By Kym Clark from: WMC_TV MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) – Houston High school started the new school year with a brand new Scientific Research & Robotics course that has captured the imagination of students. The school calls it high tech tinkering, … Continue reading

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Come and Build It With the Mid-South Makers

From: I Love Memphis Blog Sep 21, 2010 By Kerry Crawford It’s Friday night, and the Christian Brothers University campus is dark, save for one room on the second floor of the engineering building. The classroom is completely packed with … Continue reading

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SoutheastCon 2011 Robot Compeition Rules

The rules for this years IEEE SoutheastCon Robot (Hardware) Competition have been posted. See: LINK. Both the University of Memphis and Christian Brothers University usually compete in this totally autonomous robot competition each year. This year the contest is to … Continue reading

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USFirst News

It has not been officially announced yet, but I have it on good authority that UT Knoxville will be holding a USFirst Regional this coming year. The first “Smokey Mountain Regional” USFirst competition is tentatively set for March 30-April 2, … Continue reading

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Midsouth Makers – Update

Went to the Midsouth Makers meeting this past Friday. Great group. Not only did they do a hands on soldering demo, but also had mini talks on making your own chainmail and a computer project in the preliminary stages. I … Continue reading

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Pearl River Robotics has successful season

From: Picayune Item Dated May 10, 2010 By Jeremy Pittari, Item Staff Writer The Picayune Item PICAYUNE — Pearl River County Robotics had a successful year. The team won the Bayou Regional and placed the highest of any Mississippi or … Continue reading

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Mid South Makers

Was just contacted by the Mid South Makers (http://www.midsouthmakers.org/). I didn’t even know about the group until now, but if you read this blog you are probably already aware of HackerSpaces, but if you are not, watch this: They are … Continue reading

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University of Memphis Minute

Video showing David Kennedy’s senior project: OLPC Web Controlled Robot (sorry he was not interviewed, but it was one of the first projects shown) but it does show up at about the 6 sec mark in the video. As stated … Continue reading

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Robot Project Wins Award at Student Research Forum

University of Memphis April 5, 2010 David Kennedy, now a graduate student in the Engineering Technology Department at the University of Memphis Herff College of Engineering, won 2nd place in his division at the annual Student Research Forum for his … Continue reading

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