TEAM DUCT TAPE

[ September 11, 2010; ] Just one more week!

[ August 28, 2010; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Hard to believe the new season kicks off in just a couple of weeks!  The summer just flew by; it seemed we were doing something every month since our return from Atlanta in April.

Wait!  We WERE doing something every month since our return for the World Championship in April!  There was:

IEEE-Robotics and Automation Society [...]

Interesting look at the new Samantha module and Samomoto, a (free!) app that allows wifi control of a robot via the Samantha module, emulating  standard game controller hardware:

Way to go Dr. Dan and Umbrella Guy! You’ll catch a couple of glimpses of Team Duct Tape, too.

Taking robotic competitions to the next level, teams of Aldebaran robots (like the one we met at the FIRST World Championship in Atlanta in April), competed in a soccer match at the Robot World Cup in Singapore.
From The Engineer:
500 teams from over 40 countries took part in Robocup 2010, in a variety of tournaments ranging from [...]

Team Duct Tape is delighted to send congratulations to FLL TechnoForce member, Tommy, for his terrific win as champion of the Tampa Bay Spelling Bee Collaborative!  TDT helps mentor TechnoForce, and TechnoForce has always been an encouraging and enthusiastic supporter of Team Duct Tape.
He’s competing this week in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington [...]

Two great summer science contests from the USA Science and Engineering Festival:
Kavli Science Video Contest challenges K-12 students to tell us “Why Science is Cool”
The Kavli Foundation, which awards one of the most prestigious science awards in the world (similar to the Nobel Prize), is challenging student journalists to enter the USA Science & Engineering [...]

Check out the new 2010 FTC Season Kit of Parts options at the U.S. FIRST FTC website.  Veteran teams have a couple of more cost-effective choices this year, including a $70 Software Renewal kit that includes the new Samantha wifi module, or a $200 Resource Kit that includes the software license renewals, as well as some [...]