Griffin Science » Robotics http://griffinscience.com 8th Grade Science at Spartanburg Day School Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:33:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Robotics Spring ‘10 Final http://griffinscience.com/2010/05/16/robotics-spring-10-final/ http://griffinscience.com/2010/05/16/robotics-spring-10-final/#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 23:48:33 +0000 Sam Harrelson http://griffinscience.com/?p=923

Here’s the official video I made from the 1st day of the Spring Robotics Final:

And here’s KR’s point-of-view:

Enjoy!

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Pretty cool use of an NXT…

…Niko, the N900-powered Lego robot, looks poised to take over Twitter (video) — Engadget: “a machine called Niko that has Lego Mindstorm NXT 2.0 components for a body and an N900 for a brain. The bot has been under construction for a few weeks but it has just made its YouTube debut with the short video posted after the break, showing it roving around and taking a photo whenever it bumps into something.”

Love that they replaced the NXT’s brain with a Nokia N900.

You can follow (and command) Niko on Twitter.

]]> http://griffinscience.com/2010/03/20/niko/feed/ 2 Robotics Grant! http://griffinscience.com/2010/01/15/robotics-grant/ http://griffinscience.com/2010/01/15/robotics-grant/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:57:51 +0000 Sam Harrelson http://griffinscience.com/?p=660

We just received a grant from the American Nuclear Society for our Robotics program at SDS!

We’ve been working on the grant for a couple of months, so it’s great that the hard work will pay off in new supplies and tech for Robotics.

Exciting news!

]]> http://griffinscience.com/2010/01/15/robotics-grant/feed/ 0 Robotics Videos from October 23, 2009 http://griffinscience.com/2009/10/24/robotics-videos-from-october-23-2009/ http://griffinscience.com/2009/10/24/robotics-videos-from-october-23-2009/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:48:02 +0000 Sam Harrelson http://griffinscience.com/?p=451

Here are a couple of great videos from our Robotics activity on Friday 10/29/09…

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Here are a few videos from Robotics class today (we’re now learning how to program the robots we’ve constructed):

Alex’s “Foolish Mortal” Bot:

More videos soon as we continue to learn and perfect our programming language!

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Thanks to Rebecca for posting!

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I’m at the University of South Carolina for a Lego Mindstorms training today building and programming robots:

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8th Grade Robotics and 6th Grade Design Technologies are going to be a blast this year! :)

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