Summer Projects are being added

The Nanites are sharing their summer projects online but they are only accessible by their team members for the time being. The projects will be made public in the fall when they are completed.

High Altitude NXT

See what a FLL team plans to send their NXT to (almost) space. Here is the link:
http://groups.google.com/group/hale-teams/web/fll-team-90-submission

They are studying UV radiation and ozone. Incidentally, two members of our own Nanites are going to research ozone as well.

Big Nanites in action

A group of simple robots can work together and do something great! See the article from IEEE:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul08/6380

While they are simple robots as defined by their company, they are way more complicated than our Lego robots.

Darth Vader's NXT Apprentice: Droid Tank

This is way cool - check it out!
http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/2008/07/clone-wars-new-star-wars-film-coming.html

The design is pretty well written. You can find it by following the link or directly here: http://mindstorms.lego.com/nxtlog/ProjectDisplay.aspx?id=8651cdc3-737f-47bd-bbd3-34c3b13731cd

Our Team Number is 497

Can you figure out if our team number is a prime number or not?

Climate Connections from NPR

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

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.

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?

NXT Machine Gun

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

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