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Together with colleagues from Microsoft UK and Microsoft Research I attended the Think Computer Science event today. Think Computer Science is an annual event by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, to inspire local high school students to follow a scientific...
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As the opener for the new high school SciTech club I took along several of my robots: A1DW Eddie Sphero and my DIY Drone’s Quadrocopter All the above robots except for the Quadrocopter are ‘differential drive’ robots. That means they are driven by two...
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Slipping out at the end of May was the R3 release of Microsoft RDS. I’ve played with RDS since the early days, but my time has been occupied lately with mobile phones. But the most significant change with RDS is that it is now FREE – not more express...
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At Maker Faire UK I wanted to have an exhibit anyone could interact with. So I took along my robots and modified one of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) Visual Programming Language (VPL) examples to allow both speech and Xbox controller...
Filed under: Robot, How2, Microsoft, MSRS, A1DW, Education, electronics, makerfaire, Makerfaire_uk, MRDS, wotudo
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I'm taking part in the Microsoft Windows Embedded European Tour - doing the Turin and Stockholm gigs later this month :-) I shall be presenting the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio session and including as many demos as possible. A1-DW is to heavy...
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This week I attended the Architect Insight Conference in the UK. The conference is for leading software architects to share the latest implementation strategies. I was exhibiting my Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio(MSRDS) work accompanied by Lib-b...
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Today I was at the Open University attending a robotics in the curriculum event. The event, organised by Dr Ashley Green (of Walking with robots, RoboCup Jr and Roberta activities), was designed to bring together educators and industry to share ideas...
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Just a shout out to say I've been working on building some services for the White Box Robotics PC Bot 914. This work has been a bit delayed due to various reasons but I'm making good head way now. My plan is simple. Working from the good work...
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I'm off to Leicester University's 50th anniversary Science Day celebration this weekend - Saturday 8th. I'll be showing off a number of fun things including something I'm working on at the moment - robotic missile launcher targeting :...
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27 years ago (or there abouts) as a young lad, I desperately saved to buy a Heathkit Hero Jr. Hero Jr was the little brother of the Hero 1 (which featured in an American TV serious and got me hooked on robotics). By the time I had enough money to phone...
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One of the disappointments of being a competition or challenge organiser is that you can never take part in the competition you have created :-( Now we have a number of other robots in the I Love Robots competition (go vote!!) I have removed A1DW's...
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What technology will you be playing with over Christmas? A new computer, a new home theatre set up, or maybe a new robot? Or are you just happy to be at home playing on your existing kit? Now we have comments working :-) why don't you leave a note...
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In between filming interviews and making other films I managed to get some time coding with BT's Web 21st Century SDK . This allows devs to do some interesting phone stuff very easily. From SMS messaging, placing voice calls to conference calls and...
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A1 and I had a great day Friday at the first DigiGirlz conference at Microsoft UK HQ in Reading. Some two hundred girls aged 13 to 15, came to Thames Valley Park to see how technology is fun and can make an exciting and rewarding career. A1 and I represented...
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Last night I equipped A1-DW with the electronic compass and the sonar system I built. I managed to fit these inside A1's casing not wishing to deface the glorious look, which means for the moment I have to remove the back body panel from A1 to test...