I am going to The Big Bang event in about 2 weeks from now. What is this event, you ask? It’s a fair for students to learn more about science and technology. There will be demonstrations, workshops, activities and much, much more. The UK National VEX Championships are also being held there, so that’ll be super exciting. This year, the venue is in Birmingham ...
Read More »Virtual Brick: A First Look – Making a Line Follower
Robomatter has released a new product called the Virtual Brick. They have re-engineered the Virtual NXT and added new functionality, new blocks, improved robot performance, as well as a new interface to make the Virtual Brick much easier to use with the EV3. The “Brick” part is because it now works with both LEGO bricks; the NXT and EV3. What is the ...
Read More »Virtually Awesome: Virtual NXT
Robotics is great but if you have a lot of kids that want to take part, you’re going to need a fairly large number of sets. You don’t want to have spend the first 15 minutes of each class rebuilding the base robot for the lessons of that day. Up until now, you could use the ROBOTC Virtual Worlds, which ...
Read More »Robotics Academy Summer of Learning
The summer of 2013 is gearing up to be more than just a time for chilling by the pool! The 2013 Summer of Learning is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy and uses their Computer Science Student Network (CS2N) Project to host all training plus resources provided by The Robotics Education Foundation, VEX Robotics Inc., and Robomatter Inc. This summer ...
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