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With a high-resolution camera, a 3-axis accelerometer, and a Bluetooth wireless link, the Nintendo Wii Controller (Wiimote) offers exciting possibilities beyond use as a video game controller for the Nintendo Wii. One of National Instruments' Application...
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The origins of the FIRST robotics competition goes back over thirty years and during those years, traditions and creative exercises evolved to what FIRST is and stands for today, success.
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The FIRST Robotics competition partnered with Lego to create a junior league and since then the league has grown to include the Junior League, the Vex Challenge and the FIRST Robotics Challenge.
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Competition at the FIRST Robotics challenge include several ways to test the engineering of the students robot, including an interesting game where random alliances are chosen and points are awarded based on the alliances performance.
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The FIRST robotics league is a competition that occurs annually. The mission of the league is to promote science and technology through robotics as part of a schools learning curriculum.
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Robots playing soccer my not seem like a huge accomplishment, until you see DARWIN. Short for Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot With INtelligence, this robot can track a ball and respond to it's movement, all the while under it's own programmed autonomy...
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Lego Mindstorm products have spawned a completely new group of robotic Lego builders; adult fans of Legos. From polynomic robots to shooting robots, engineers are spending their free time exploring the limits of the NXT platform in a robust programming...