Bring Me the Head of Philip K. Dick
How a creative team of scientists and academics from Memphis created – and lost – an android superstar.
In this week’s Memphis Flyer there is an article about the android head build at the University of Memphis and was lost returning from a trip.
Just a neat video showing how your bag gets from check in to the plane and (hopefully) back you you.
Back on April 28th and 29 the USA Science & Engineering Festival was held at the DC Convention Center. A colleague on the Engineering Technology Listserve Wrote the following:
Hello Listmates,
Last weekend at the USA Science and Engineering Festival I talked to hundreds of parents that were all looking for resources to help their child become an engineer. They asked questions about camps, competitions, robotics, classes to take, money for college, salary of engineers, math, books and what more they can do at home to help.
As a result, I’ve put together a list of what we here at the Engineering Education Service Center offer and I’ve also attached a pdf file of my “How to Grow an Engineer” presentation handout for parents. I jokingly call this my 10-step program and parents usually seem to enjoy the humor.
Hope this helps when parents come to you with questions.
Engineering Camps
http://www.engineeringedu.com/camps/
Engineering Competitions
http://www.engineeringedu.com/competitions.html
Women in Engineering Programs
http://www.engineeringedu.com/wie.html
Engineering Education and Career Books
http://www.engineeringedu.com/store/books.html
Engineering Outreach Posters (Designed by Students for Students)
http://www.engineeringedu.com/store/posters.html
DIY Engineering Kits to inspire middle and high school students
http://www.engineeringedu.com/store/blast.html
List of Accredited Engineering Schools
http://www.engineeringedu.com/engrschools.htm
List of Accredited Engineering Technology Schools
http://www.engineeringedu.com/etechschools.htm
My Blog on Inspiring Students to Pursue an Engineering Education
http://www.engineeringedu.com/CelestesBlog/celeste-baines-blog-on-inspiring-an-engineering-education/
How to Grow an Engineer pdf handout for parents (double sided booklet style handout)
http://www.engineeringedu.com/How_to_Grow_an_Engineer.pdf
Enjoy!
—
Celeste Baine
Director – Engineering Education Service Center
Looking for STEM Education ideas, see http://k12lab.com/
This is a website to find and share STEM education ideas. It is sponsored by NI (the makers of LabVIEW and the NXT Software) so it has a lot of stuff on Robotics!
Another website with some NXT stuff on it is from UofM’s own GEE (Girls Experiencing Engineering) Website at http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=121247
And from the above, my favorite link: http://www.nxtprograms.com/NXT2/multi-bot/steps.html
Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers #TED : http://on.ted.com/BOuo
Campain for Google Doodle
Obviously I love robots….well in the latest Doodle For Google contest there is an entry that goes right along with that:
It’s title is: The Robotic Future
by Olivia L, Prospect, KY, Grade 9
who said “If I could travel in time, I’d visit the future. I wouldn’t want to hang around in the past and mess up what has already been done to lead to the present. I would want to go to the future to see what will be created, like robots.”
Please vote for this doodle at: http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html#d=d4-4
From Barobo, Inc Website
The Mobot educational robot broadens student participation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. Mobot teamwork will engage students on collaborative learning who might otherwise be inclined not to participate in classroom activities.
On April 26, the Tech support people at Sparkfun had a little robot competition of their own. I thought it was a neat contest and wanted to share the video with you. If you want to see more goto http://www.sparkfun.com/news/857?cid=Newsletter+-+EDN+Fun+Friday
Arduino’s Playmate
The $25 Raspberry Pi will do for computing what Arduino has done for robotics
IEEE Spectrum
BY Steven Cherry // Wed, April 18, 2012
This is an exciting time for do-it-yourselfers.
Last October, Spectrum ran a feature article about Arduino. Here’s what we said.
Arduino is a low-cost microcontroller board that lets even a novice do really amazing things. You can connect an Arduino to all kinds of sensors, lights, motors, and other devices and use easy-to-learn software to program how your creation will behave. You can build an interactive display or a mobile robot and then share your design with the world….
Arduino has spawned an international do-it-yourself revolution in electronics. You can buy an Arduino board for just about US $30 or build your own from scratch: All hardware schematics and source code are available for free under public licenses. As a result, Arduino has become the most influential open-source hardware movement of its time.
Lightning is about to strike twice in the open-source hardware movement, with the release of Raspberry Pi. For $25, you can get the guts of an entire computer—a single board with a microprocessor, Wi-Fi, [Wi-Fi can be added through the USB port] and inputs for video, USB, and an SD card. Interest has been intense—the initial launch on February 29th briefly crashed the Raspberry Pi website, and people have been signing up as quickly as once every 6 seconds.
My guest today is the founder of Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton. He’s a chip architect at Broadcom, which also makes the chip that’s at the heart of the board. He joins us by phone from Cambridge, England.
Eben, welcome to the podcast. (listen below)
