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One of my favourite features of Stanford is the beautiful architecture. You really have to see it in real, but I hope my pictures will better illustrate it! The detail and texture is amazing.
The total GB count of all the photos I took is 9.46! But, I only chose the best and uploaded them, so with all the small versions and thumbnails, it totaled to 2.3GB. :) Source Link
Update: 6 New Styrobots have been built.
In this video VI Shots interviews Ray Almgren who leads the worldwide academic relations program for National Instruments. We also interview several mentors and students to get their feedback on this change in direction for next years competition. Teams 2023, 1739, 47, 107 and 2053 are featured.
Photo taken by Deirdre of my interview with Ray Almgren
Are you on a team? What’s your opinion on the new hardware and LabVIEW?
Apple.com/science has a feature page dedicated to LabVIEW! Not sure when this went up but it’s awesome. The main article focuses on the RoMeLa team who worked on DARwIn. VI Shots did a video last year on DARwIn. The article goes in depth on the power of LabVIEW but also focuses (of course) on the teams decision to switch from PCs to Macs:
“We started developing DARwIn in Windows,” says graduate student Sean Egger. “But you can port LabVIEW code from PCs to Macs and vice versa. Many of us had Macs and prefer Mac OS X to Windows, so we ported most of our DARwIn development software to the Mac version of LabVIEW. The Macs give us a stable operating system, and more importantly, a UNIX core, which makes things easier – such as TCP connections and serial port communication.”
“One of the reasons we really like LabVIEW is that it will connect so easily and seamlessly to any kind of sensor or motor controller. We don’t get bogged down writing drivers. LabVIEW’s got packages that communicate with just about anything we’ve thrown at it.”
Anybots just released a new video of the next version of Dexter. Dexter is a biped teleoperated robot created by the Mountain View, CA based company.
Here’s a VI Shots video of the Anybots team during last years Robodevelopment conference:
NXT-G Online is software that allows you to program a virtual Lego Mindstorms NXT. Are you a school that doesn’t have enough cash for an NXT hardware set. No fear, this virtual software actually lets you program in NXT-G and download to a virtual NXT brain. Then you can execute the code and see it in virtual action.
To help better understand what is going on in the video, here is the sequence of chronologically events:
- A challenge was selected - a video that came up introduced the challenge.
- The simulated NXT-G programming environment was opened
- Wrote some code (4 motor blocks were dragged onto the palette, and each was set at a different power level).
- Downloaded the NXT-G program to the virtual NXT robot, which automatically opened the virtual environment.
- The robot was moved to where we wanted it to start.
- The virtual NXT brick was opened and we ran the program that was just created. The robot moved accordingly.
Note that the release version of NXT-G Online also has the ability select different sensors and motors for the virtual robot after which you can go back and change your code to make use of your modifications.
Galileo is the innovator of a unique breakthrough technology, The Galileo Wheel which combines wheel and track in a single component. The simple mechanism enables switching back and forth between the two modes within seconds. The technology enables the device to use wheels whenever possible, and tracks whenever needed.
They are currently looking for partners to adapt their invention to the consumer robotics market after successfully landing a contract with an Israeli defense contractor.
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Braintech’s VOLTS-IQ Visual Intelligence Software Suite provides feature recognition, object localization and robot guidance in the form of Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) services.
VOLTS-IQ uniquely combines Braintech’s proven robot vision expertise with Microsoft’s powerful MSRS service-based architecture. Using VOLTS-IQ, researchers, commercial product developers and hobbyists can “vision-enable” their robotic projects and products with unprecedented ease and speed, leap frogging the traditional barriers involved with vision development and bringing their ideas to life faster than ever.
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