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Robot Construction Ideas
2009 Robotics Competition and Exhibition
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Register
your interest by July 1st!

although
actual events are in August.
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Open to primary,
intermediate, and secondary
students as well as the general
public.
Subject to sufficient entries
being received, it will be held
Sunday August 2nd from 11am
to 3pm at Inglewood High School.
Robots could also be entries
for the Science and Technology
Fair the next day!.
Download
Rules
and Conditions
OR Entry
Forms OR advertising
posters.
Contact Inlgewood
High School for a robotics/electronics
workshops;
- Racing
bots (fastest on a straight
track)
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Budget bots (under $100 but
with the as many abilities
as possible)
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Celebrity bots (best mock-up
of a famous robot from TV
or film)
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"Robotics is a
use of a wide range of technologies.
In order to build a robot you
must also build power supplies,
motors and gears for motion,
sensors and if wanted design
Artificial Intelligence.
The term robot originates
from the Czech word robota,
meaning "compulsory labour."
It was first used in the 1921
play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal
Robots) by the Czech novelist
and playwright Karel Capek.
The word robot has been used
since to refer to a machine
that performs work to assist
people or work that humans find
difficult or undesirable. The
concept of automated machines
dates to antiquity with myths
of mechanical beings brought
to life. Automata, or manlike
machines, also appeared in the
clockwork figures of medieval
churches, and 18th-century watchmakers
were famous for their clever
mechanical creatures. The robots
that you and I know today have
only been around for the last
30 years"
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Taken from Jared Broad's ALIS
report, 1998.
Robot Plans
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Way back in 1998, when only
a Year 10 (Form Four) student,
NRG student Jared Broad designed
ALIS....a modern day
version of the famous Lost in
Space B9 robot.
Download his plans and background
report...see the thinking and
planning that goes into building
ANY robot...(in Plans
in PDF format).
Nowadays Jared has a degree
in Biophysics and combines Computing,
Electronics and Biology expertise
to carry out
ground-breaking research...
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Inglewood
High School Year 9 Mathematics students


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