National Robotics Week April 2-10, Any S3's on the Docket?

erco

Just 2.5 weeks to National Robotics Week: http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ April 2-10

What shall we do? Careful, some events claim to start early, on April Fools day... http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/Events.aspx

@Ken: Will S3's be shipping by then? St. Patrick's Day would also be a GREAT day for green robots...

David Betz

erco wrote: »

Just 2.5 weeks to National Robotics Week: http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ April 2-10

What shall we do? Careful, some events claim to start early, on April Fools day... http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/Events.aspx

@Ken: Will S3's be shipping by then? St. Patrick's Day would also be a GREAT day for green robots...

And we can have a contest to see who can program them to draw a shamrock?

erco

David Betz wrote: »

And we can have a contest to see who can program them to draw a shamrock?

Now you're barkin' !

Seairth

erco wrote: »

David Betz wrote: »

And we can have a contest to see who can program them to draw a shamrock?

Now you're barkin' !

Or maybe in honor of April Fools Day, a robot that just avoids being turned off (think useless machine on wheels).

Seairth

Or, seeing that they make trading cards, get a head start and create some 2017 P2-based robot cards during the 2016 event! Then we can all vote on the one we want to take on as a challenge to complete by the 2017 National Robotics Week.

erco

Seairth wrote: »

Or maybe in honor of April Fools Day, a robot that just avoids being turned off (think useless machine on wheels).

Been done already!

http://www.robotshop.com/en/nanda-clocky-robotic-alarm-clock-chrome.html

Seairth

erco wrote: »

Seairth wrote: »

Or maybe in honor of April Fools Day, a robot that just avoids being turned off (think useless machine on wheels).

Been done already!

http://www.robotshop.com/en/nanda-clocky-robotic-alarm-clock-chrome.html

Hah! And that's a reason not to do it again? OK, then, a slight variation. A robot that never does what you command it to do! The brilliant thing about this version is that just about every robot has qualified somewhere along it's development.

erco

I'm all signed up for USC's Open House on April 14, so I better do my taxes early...

http://www.viterbi.usc.edu/k-12/robotics-open-house.htm

How are YOU celebrating National Robotics Week?

erco

USC demoed a pair of S2s at their Open House today.

Whit

Good find erco!

erco

Your POV exposures would have killed, Whit!

Whit

Thanks pal!

erco

NRW snuck up on me! Was it quieter this year, or am I just too busy and not paying attention? Anybody doing anything big?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leading-roboticists-celebrate-10th-anniversary-of-national-robotics-week-300822957.html

JonM

I hope it is okay to post this, but there is a Month of Robots Challenge on element14 where they are giving away prizes for those selected who post a Robotics related project. They are dedicating this to Gordon McComb .
https://element14.com/community/docs/DOC-92128/l/project14-the-birthday-special-month-of-robots-robot-prizes-for-the-birthday-of-project14?ICID=hp-P14Bday-rotational

Sacrobotics will be holding a Table Top challenge on April 11th at their next meeting.
https://sacrobotics.com/#next

I'm planning to enter my cyber:bot for the Table Top challenge.

erco

That Table Top challenge looks awesome, right there in River City (OK, Rocklin)! Good luck with your cyber:bot, please share some video if you can.