Memphis Robot Camps / Events
My Websites
National Robotics Events
- BEST Robotics
- Botball
- FIRST Robotics
- Maker Faire
- MATE ROV Competition
- MoonBots
- Nasa Robotics Alliance Project
- Robofest
- Trinity College Fire Fighting Robot Contest
- VEX
Regional Robotics Events
Related Groups
Meta
Robot snakes have some very useful purposes – CBS News Live Video – CBS News
Posted in Robot News
Leave a comment
FTC and FRC Robot Team Sponsorships
https://www.revrobotics.com/team-sponsorship/
For the 2023-2024 FIRST® IN SHOW℠ season, REV Robotics is awarding $100,000 in total sponsorships for FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition teams!
Posted in Memphis Robotics, Robot News
Leave a comment
Revolutionizing STEM Learning for Kids with FIRST’s Dean Kamen – YouTube
Posted in Robot News, Teaching Technology
Leave a comment
Wired to Win
This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win – Inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo aspired to build machines that think.
Posted in Computer History, IEEE
Leave a comment
LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Python API Launch
LEGO® Education is excited to announce the launch of SPIKE™ App Python API!
To support the launch, our Software and Customer Success Teams will be hosting a webinar Monday, June 26, 8:30am EDT (GMT-4) to share the new features and to provide direction about when and how to update.
If your school or district has an app approval protocol, we encourage you to begin that process now so you’re able to download and access SPIKE™ App by Back to School; otherwise, teachers and students will need to be able to access the Web app at spike.legoeducation.com.
We look forward to seeing you there and answering your questions.
If you are unable to attend, please register so we can send you a recording and links to resources.
Posted in Robot News, Teaching Technology
Leave a comment
The Computer History Museum
If you could not tell, I was recently in California for the 2023 Cisco Networking Academy Partner & Instructor Conference. While there, I also was able to visit the Computer History Museum (CHM) and scratch it off my bucket list.
I have posted a number of the videos from the museum in posts below, but I also wanted to post a few pics that I took while there:
Above is me with “Shakey”, one of the first autonomous path finding robots. I remember watching a NOVA on this robot and now I work with robots! Couldn’t resist taking this photo!
For those into computer history, you will probably recognize two panels from ENIAC, one of the first all electronic computers. Again being a computer history geek, I couldn’t help but to take a picture!
If you are ever in Mountain View, CA and are a computer nerd like me, I strongly encourage you to go to this museum and see it for yourself. I actually went through the exhibits three times and saw something I missed each time! This is geek heaven! I just wish the IBM 1401 and PDP-1 Demos were live when I visited (but it was still neat seeing these old restored computers).
Can’t get to the Computer History Museum to see the exhibit in person. Click HERE to go through the exhibit virtually.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment