Wot u do!

If you read this blog at all you'll know I enjoy building and dreaming of robots. So to co-inside with the Robots Supplement that is available this month we're running another competition - yes another one, that's three if you include the one in the robots supplement!!!! - where you can win...

One of my other endeavours during November has reached daylight. During the summer Ian Robson, of Future Publishing, and I cooked up the idea of a Robotics supplement for PC Plus. The accessibility of robotics to normal people has improved greatly over the last few years and with Microsoft Robotics Studio...

I was able to attend the First Lego League 'Power Puzzle' challenge tournament at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford last weekend. Duxford, an old WWII fighter air base, has an enormous collection of commercial and military planes. The FLL tournament took place nestled amongst some of the exhibits...

November is definitely going to be a month of hard work in the robotics department. Following on from my week at Tech Ed Developers in Barcelona I have some unfinished work producing my BT IVR robot control application. But late in the month I have also to demonstrate a robot football match - with a...

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 even IVR applications, the Web21CSDK provides some...

The Guardian has an interesting article on the the DARPA Urban Challenge event. Take a look at: Meet your new driver, the robot | Technology | The Guardian Technorati Tags: PAVE , Robot , DARPA

Its all happening in Victorville... Living with robots: The $3.5m DARPA Urban Challenge | The Register

DARPA's Urban Challenge is underway with the vehicles currently being evaluated before the final 20 are announced on the 1st Nov. Unfortunately the Princeton Uni entry - PAVE - has been plagued with problems with them just getting the car ready for the E-Stop test, and then being disabled only 100ft...

It seems an age already but only last month I was working in Redmond for a week. During this time I got to catch up with former UK colleague Mike Hall now high on the lofty career ladder as Software Archiect for Windows Embedded. Mike showed me a blog post of his I had missed and, well, I've just...

The PC evolution continues. Via show off their new Mobile-ITX x86 board. Using the C7 chipset the finished motherboard is smaller than a normal business card!!! Identified as the future of smartphone development this is a very interesting piece of kit. Of course mobile devices are likely to be the main...