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Don't forget
to enter your robot into Science
Fair


Excellent
service and competitive prices
are why Mailtronics
components have been used
for many years by Nexus students.
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New Zealands first Dalek
building page...see
how it was done!
The TARDIS makes an appearance...popular
with the crowds at the 2005
Careers Expo. Build
your own Time Machine here...
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a superfast Red Rider robot...Mikaela's
simple solution but it can carry
quite a load. |
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Detailed robot plans
for ALIS from Jared
Broad
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Meet Cybot from the
"Real
Robots" fortnightly
magazine
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PICAXE controller chips
- discover how these amazing
programmable
chips could
be used in your robot!
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Simple sensors -
read our Sensors
from voltage dividers
article so your robot can
sense the outside world
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Cyber Mice - build
Mighty
Mouse, Cybot's
PICAXE cousin and 8 legs away
from evolving into a Cyber
Spider!
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Michael has details for a Taranaki-wide
Robotics Competition...
- Racing bots (fastest on a straight
track)
- aMazing bots (fastest through
a maze)
- Colony bots (robots that interact
exhibiting life-like behaviours)
- Walking bots (robots that must
not use wheels)
- Budget bots (under $50 but with
the as many abilities as possible)
- Spy bots (must be able to collect
and transmit data)
- Celebrity bots (best mock-up
of a famous robot from TV or film...more
Daleks!?)
2008 Daily News,April 30. "Shining
a light on the future "
2007 Ministry of Education Press
Release, October 10 "Innovative
teachers to explore new technology
horizons"
2007 Daily News, June 4 "Teacher's
invention makes a lot of sensor"
- RIGEL
system main feature in the Breakthroughs
section
2005 Daily News,
August 18 "Timeless Robot"
- Bell Block School pupils get
a visit from a Dalek!
2005 Daily News, June 4 "Robots
inspiring young engineers" -
Mike's Cybot as example of cross
discipline co-operation to run novel
courses for school students.
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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"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"
Taken from Jared Broad's ALIS
report, 1998.
The
New Adventures of Cybot Bob!
The students of the Inglewood High
School Physics Department have adopted
Bob, the Cybot robot.
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After a rough day at Inglewood
High School, Cybot Bob decides
it is time for a quick bath.
Here Cybot Bob waits for Stingray
to destroy any Terror Fish lurking
in the bathwater...
Using his IR link to surf the
web, Cybot Bob visits
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The Year 12 and Year 13 students
have enjoyed being followed
around the school hall and classroom
by Cybot Bob. He uses ultrasound
to "see" in a similar
manner to the way bats use echo
location to avoid obstacles.
Cybot Bob can use his light
sensors to follow a clearly
marked line drawn on the ground.
Unfortunately Cybot Bob follows
a snail trail up a tree and
has to be rescued by Mikaela.
Watch out Bob,
Mighty
Mouse can do
the same and can even evolve
into a Cyber Spider!
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Inglewood
High School robotics team 2003


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