Archive for November, 2008

 21 Nov 2008 @ 12:32 PM 
 

g-speak Spacial Operating System

 

I’ve written about developments in this area before, but you’ll want to see the video below to find out what Oblong Industries is up to.


g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

Some of the SOE’s core ideas are already familiar from the film Minority Report, whose characters performed forensic analysis using massive, gesturally driven displays. The similarity is no coincidence: one of Oblong’s founders served as science advisor to Minority Report and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT.

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Last Edit: 21 Nov 2008 @ 12 34 PM

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 17 Nov 2008 @ 11:55 AM 
 

FIRST LEGO League: We Won!

 

Since the school year began, I’ve been teaching Lego Robotics two morning’s a week at Isaac’s new school, the Academy for Science and Design Chartered Public School, in Merrimack New Hampshire.

Many of you know I’ve been teaching Lego Robotics twice a week at the Academy for Science and Design, in Merrimack, N.H. As a function of the class, we had two teams competing in the FIRST LEGO League branch of the FIRST Robotics program, founded by Dean Kaman. (See http://www.usfirst.org/community/fll/ .) The ASD is a chartered public school, now in its second year of operation.

At the “MindStorms Madness” qualifying tournament in Merrimack, N.H., on Saturday, the two teams from the ASD came away with three trophies:

The team I officially coach, Robotic Revolution, won first place in the Technical category (Robot design and programming), and will go on to compete at the state competition on December 6 at Nashua South High School.

The other team I taught (but did not officially coach) won 2nd place in Technical, and got the top score during the seeding matches. (Sadly, they were eliminated in the finals.)

The photos from the slide show above are available here on PicasaWeb.

I’ll update this post with more details about the team and the event sometime in the next day or two.

Tags Categories: Cool Sites/BLOGs, David, Doug, Family Members, Geekdom, Home Life, Isaac, Lego, Naomi, Photos, Technology, The Kids, Work Life Posted By: LegoDoug
Last Edit: 17 Nov 2008 @ 11 57 AM

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