H.A.L.E. (High Altitude LEGO Extravaganza)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

 

http://www.unr.edu/nevadasat/HALE/

It certainly was the most exciting robot project we ever participated in.

Many thanks:
1. to the organizers : Dr. Eric Wang and his team at Nevada University. Great job guys !!!
2. to the sponsors : Nevada Space Grant, LEGO Company, Energizer, National Instruments
3. to the contributors :
* all the teams, although, honestly, I love most the FLL’s contribution -under the guidance of David Levy- and ex aequo the 4th grades’ marshmallows under the supervision of Barbara Bratzel and Chris Rogers. These kids leave us adults ashamed.
* Brian Davis’s freefall robot and Gypsy prove reliability and hopefully will deliver lots of good pictures
* Eugene Tsai’s Brix-Catcher : wow !
* Jurgen Leitner and David Leal Martinez’ REEL-E : this is real research ! But please explain the name.
* The LEGO Mindstorms mysterious payload leaves us under suspens.
* Finally our own LUXPAK team: thanks to Francis Massen, Jean Mootz and Jean-Claude Krack, the LCD students and the Convict robotics group: now let’s hope we get valuable data. (http://www.convict.lu/htm/rob/hale3.htm and http://www.legoengineering.com/content/view/98/65/ (thanks Morgan!)

Claude Baumann

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Fire extinguisher from LEGO

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Here’s a nice project using the new linear actuator from BlueToothKiwi. The fire extinguisher uses the new Linear actuator combined with the pneumatic pump with the plunger submerged in water tank. Surprisingly it works like a treat, as you can see in the video.

Warning! be extra careful with anything involving open fire! Kids - don’t do this without adult supervison!

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Happy 4th of July!

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Have a good day everyone!

Josh

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