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Tag Archives: Competition
Taking First Place at IMAV 2016 Drone Competition
The IMAV (International Micro Air Vehicle) conference and competition is a yearly flying robotics competition hosted by a different University every year. AKAMAV – a university student group at TU Braunschweig in Germany – have written up a fascinating and detailed account of what it was like to compete (and take first place) in 2016’s eleven-mission event hosted by the Beijing Institute of Technology.
AKAMAV’s debrief of IMAV 2016 is well-written and insightful. It covers not only the five outdoor and six indoor missions, but also details what it was like to prepare for and compete in such an intensive …read more
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AT&T CEO Says $85B Time Warner Deal Will Be Tremendous for Consumers
But public interest groups warn that media consolidation usually leads to higher prices. Continue reading AT&T CEO Says $85B Time Warner Deal Will Be Tremendous for Consumers
Can Torrents Power a More Democratic YouTube?
This teenage developer thinks so. Continue reading Can Torrents Power a More Democratic YouTube?
A UK Government Department Uses Hacking Powers to Catch Price-Fixing Cartels
The Competition and Markets Authority is one of many agencies with hacking powers. Continue reading A UK Government Department Uses Hacking Powers to Catch Price-Fixing Cartels
[Poll] Dare to bare or cover your cam?
How do you feel about that little circular lens? Continue reading [Poll] Dare to bare or cover your cam?
A Robot In A Day
While building a robot (nearly) from scratch isn’t easy, it needn’t be a lengthy process. Is it possible to build a bot in a single day? With some musical motivation (a 10 hour loop of the A-Team theme song), [Tyler Bletsch] answers with a resounding ‘yes’ in the shape of his little yellow robot that he built for a local robotics competition.
Designing and fabricating on the fly, [Bletsch] used Sketchup to design the chassis, and OpenSCAD to model the wheels while the former was being 3D printed. Anticipating some structural weakness, he designed another version that could …read more
