I spent most of my day packaging Vivus the Robot kits, which involves unpacking lots of boxes, taking out the microcontroller, plugging them into my PC, and programming them one at a time. However, I did manage to find the time to continue working on BW Science Labs’s next kit, a mini UV LED kit [...]

GlobalThose of you who know me, know how much I love MIT. Hey, who doesn’t? The first Rapid Prototyping machines came from them, along with the first robots to learn like a human child, and having an on-campus nuclear reactor is pretty darn cool too. MIT unveiled their newest toy this week, a robot that [...]

This is usually the time where I’d post a Theoretical Thursday on my thoughts and ideas, however today something awesome happened that merits overwriting theories. I won Sun Microsystems’s and IFTF’s international youth competition, the Digital Open. I won a laptop, a video camera, and a bunch of other cool things. The Boing Boing Media [...]

Global I’m not completely sure if this really counts for global, but this week Apple announced that their 2 billionth iPhone app had been downloaded. Wow, 2 BILLION iphone app downloads, that’s a lot of Fart Applications… I can picture Steve Jobs right now with a little party hat on, toasting his victory. Don’t even [...]

Today, while driving home from school, I saw a car with some sort of spinning sensor on the top. I recognized the design from a NOVA episode I saw in 2007 about the yearly robot car races. From what I remember, the rotating block on top most likely uses sonar to rapidly send out sonar [...]