Technology
Green Robot
Mar 13th
Green is the new pink! We have green car, green air-cond, green paper bag, green etc. Following this new trend of environmental conserving effort and supporting our ISO14000, Robotics Club is embracing the green culture by organizing a dialogue on how to build robot structure solely using recyclable objects and parts.
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
Nov 4th
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (Microsoft RDS, MRDS) is a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation. It is aimed at academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers and handles a wide variety of robot hardware.
RDS is based on CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime), a .NET-based concurrent library implementation, for managing asynchronous, parallel tasks using message-passing and DSS (Decentralized Software Services). DSS is a lightweight services-oriented runtime which allows the orchestration of multiple services to achieve complex behaviors.
Features include a visual programming tool, Microsoft Visual Programming Language for creating and debugging robot applications, web-based and windows-based interfaces, 3D simulation (including hardware acceleration), easy access to a robot’s sensors and actuators as well as support for a number of languages including C# and Visual Basic .NET, JScript, and IronPython.
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio includes support for packages to add other services to the suite. Those currently available include Soccer Simulation and Sumo Competition by Microsoft, and a community-developed Maze Simulator, a program to create worlds with walls that can be explored by a virtual robot.
Extracted from Wikipedia.org
Pololu 3pi Robot
Sep 3rd
The Pololu 3pi robot is a complete, high-performance mobile platform featuring two micro metal gearmotors, five reflectance sensors, an 8×2 character LCD, a buzzer, and three user pushbuttons, all connected to a C-programmable ATmega168 or ATmega328 microcontroller. Capable of speeds exceeding 3 feet per second, 3pi is a great first robot for ambitious beginners and a perfect second robot for those looking to move up from non-programmable or slower beginner robots.
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