Our winning Finalist Alliance,captained by Nanofusion,team 499,rocked yesterday’s Seminole High School Techtacular Finals match with a high score of 97! With Nanofusion running great defence,we got 45 points on our autonomous run,scoring all five preloaded batons and balancing on a bridge,then scored batons in the stationary goal,got our [...] [...]
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The FTC season is well underway here in Florida. Results from the last two qualifying competitions are online at the Florida FIRST Tech Challenge website and it looks like we’ve got our work cut out for us! This year,Florida is trying out the use of Team Videos instead of Team Interviews the day of a [...] [...] From USA Today:What if tiny “nano-bots”could autonomously travel though a person’s bloodstream to find and kill cancerous cells,eliminating the need for surgery? Or what if you could hop into a flying car for your morning commute? No science fiction here:“These are real,”say commercials for Planet Green‘s [...] [...] Check out the worlds first life size Android humanoid robot unveiled at the Google Developers Conference in Tokyo. Visit http://www.robots-dreams.com/2010/09/these-are-the-droids-youre-looking-for-android-humanoids-video.html for full story, build photos and all the background information. [...] Team Duct Tape members learned a bit about powered exoskeletons during their visit to Robrady,so it’s pretty exciting to see Raytheon‘s unveiling of its second-generation powered exoskeleton,the XOS 2,coinciding with the release of Iron Man 2 on DVD. According to Raytheon,the XOS 2 is ligher,faster and uses 50% less power than [...] [...] Ever since one of our team members started tinkering with remotely driven robots via online chat (see Skypebot),we’ve been seeing “telepresence”robots everywhere. The NY Times has a great story on telepresence robotics this weekend (The Boss is Robotic,and Rolling Up Behind You) . From the article:For years,the military and law enforcement agencies [...] [...] Our robot sometimes made us want to climb walls,but the University of Utah has developed a robot named ROCR -that can climb walls all by itself. ROCRs design “mimics efficient systems both in nature and manmade..It mimics a gibbon swinging through the trees and a grandfather clock’s pendulum,both of which are extremely efficient.” The University [...] [...] A post at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories about the Egg-Bot heading out to the Maker Faire in Detroit,caught our interest. The Egg-Bot “ is an open-source art robot that can draw on spherical or egg-shaped objects from the size of a ping pong ball size to that of a small grapefruit–roughly 1.5 to 4 inches [...] [...] |  Our coffers are drained from our World Championship run. Your contributions will help us cover 2012-13 costs for registration,new tools and equipment,and tournament costs. All donations made through Learning is for Everyone are tax deductible as permitted by law. Please type "Team Duct Tape" in the comment section of your Network for Good donation. Thank you!  Visit Florida FTC on  | |||||
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