Robot season is upon us and the competition is starting to heat up. If you happen to find a free weekend I recommend that you look up a local competition and check it out. It is amazing how fired up kids can get about robots. Unfortunately there is no single place ...

Robot season is upon us and the competition is starting to heat up. If you happen to find a free weekend I recommend that you look up a local competition and check it out. It is amazing how fired up kids can get about robots. Unfortunately there is no single place ...

I’ll be heading down to San Antonio, Texas next week to attend the Freescale Technology Forum. This year they are hosting a pair of Make It Challenges, the Mechatronics Challenge and the Tower System Challenge. Both are based on the Freescale Tower System board sporting a 32-bit Coldfire microcontroller. The Mechatronics ...

It’s been a week since I flew home from Orlando and I can finally say that I am caught up on sleep. Recovery takes longer each year but the event has also grown significantly so I can’t blame it all on my age. Next year’s championship is in Anaheim, CA, and ...

Yesterday’s opening ceremony was amazing. The parade of nations was the largest ever with more teams and more nations than last year. Two of new additions this year were the Cherokee Nation and Saudi Arabia. I’m sure there were more, but my mind isn’t very fresh after three 14 hour ...

Yesterday was exhausting, but we still managed to have some fun. Disney brought out a DJ and lots of confetti fireworks for the opening. It was quite the fanfare with music, stilt dancers, and few Disney characters walking about for photo ops. I spent the morning setting up webcast computers. We had ...

Blast off! Wednesday went well. Over 250 of the teams took advantage of the early check-in and many of them beat the rush to get their robots inspected and approved for competition. As I’d expected, I spent the day setting up computers, moving computers, and making things happen. Today I’ll be helping ...

T minus one day and counting. Today starts my first full day at the 2011 VEX Robotics World Championship. I’ll be helping to set up the field controllers and tournament manager computers, and tying down any loose ends. Everything should be set up and ready to go by 7pm tonight. A ...

Just in time for the National Robotics Week, the VEX Robotics World Championships are coming to Disney World’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex on April 14th to 16th. Everyone is invited and admission is free to the general public. Nearly 10,000 students from middle schools, high schools, and universities from ...

T minus 2 days and counting. At an hour that more closely resembled my average bed-time, I packed up the family and headed toward the airport this morning. We are on our way to the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex for the 2011 VEX Robotics World Championship. My daughter decided ...