NEW SITE

Since the Nanites are no longer in the FLL program, we have created a new site more catered towards FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge): website & blog.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Climate Connections from NPR

The link will bring you to a lot of useful information for research.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Nanites Summer Agenda

Friday July 11 - last day to send "individual" robotics and research proposals to the coaches.

All the following meetings to be held in Simon's house.

Sunday Aug 3 - 4:30pm-6:30pm (practice session)
Sunday Aug 17 -4:30pm-6:30pm (practice session)
Friday Aug 29 - 7pm-9pm (summer projects graded by peers and coaches). Please send in your final written projects by e-mail before the meeting.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Card dealing robot

I probably will build a slightly different version of a card dealer when I get around to it. I used to play bridge regularly and it would really be nice to have a robot to deal the cards for me. It will need to be more sophisticated than the one shown. It has to deal 4 sets of 13 cards, randomly, well, randomly speaking.

Making your own Wall-e with NXT

I like what I saw. Anyone wants to build it?

Thursday, June 5, 2008

NXT Machine Gun

Two views of the NXT Machine Gun entirely built by Simon.

http://picasaweb.google.com/kingsum.chow/2008LegoProjects?authkey=apKXuMPZf-U

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

How to Take Good Photos of LEGOs

I learned a lot of how to take better photos of LEGOs.

New Season for Climate Connections

http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=70

Let the new season begin with summer project assignments that will help you prepare for the new challenges. The assignments are not ready yet but they should be ready before the last day of school.