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Penn State Abington – IST 402 – Vex Robot Competition
The team of Derek, Kazi and Rich defeats the team of Chris, Steve and Kirk in an epic battle of capture the flag using foam balls. Using Vex Robot Kits we were able to assemble Vex squarebots with claw addons to use for the competition. The rules and regulations for this competition were designed by…
Armadillo Aerospace 2000ft Rocket Robot Roll Vane Flight
A flight to 2000ft AGL of an Armadillo Aerospace “Mod” VTVL rocket, with a shiny new actuated roll vane, 2010/06/22. Rather than using cold gas thrusters to move the vehicle around the vertical axis (roll), an aerodynamic surface is actuated to provide roll. In the split screen, it’s the aluminum plate on the right; the…
Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot
http://www.ted.com At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR — all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s incredible technical success. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best…
Battle Bot
A clip from my camera phone, sorry for the low quality. This was taken at the Maker Faire on Sunday May 4, 2008. Duration : 0:0:16
What kind of stuff can you do with the nxt kit (robot)?
So I am hoping to get one for my birthday, but I am not that sure what cool things you can do with them?Are they hard to program? If you can give me a link to a tutorial on how to program and think of stuff to build, that would be great too, thanks for…
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