Thank you to Ekocycle for our awesome new printer! It's so amazing to watch, and I can't wait to see what we can make with it.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
Friday, January 30, 2015
Last year's UNH District Champions and a backup team for Einstein, this week we are showcasing Windham Windup, team 3467! Windham is a fairly new team which has shown great success in the past few years. I know I can't wait to see what their robot will look like this year!
Visit Windham Windup's website here: http://www.team3467.org/
Windham's Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-3467-Windham-Windup-Robotics/17...
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Is it Thursday? Feels like Monday. Probably because we had two days off in the middle of the week!
Here's a sampling of the yearbooks we have had through the years, including one from when we were sister teams with Nashua, and so one half of the yearbook was Nashua's, and the other side was ours!
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We've been gone for a little while, on account of school being closed for all the snow! But now the roads are clear, the school is open, and we are all back to work on the robot and animation!
To make up for the lack of posts the past few days, I'll be doing some little extras for the next couple of days. Stay tuned!
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Sunday, January 25, 2015
Friday, January 23, 2015
The roughest, rowdiest, and most resilient team in all of New Hampshire..... this week is team 151 the Tough Techs!
The Tough Techs are one of the oldest teams in the area. When we worked at BAE, they worked alongside us, and we remain in close contact to them! This year team 151 have faced some challenges, but true to their name they are confronting those challenges with all their strength!
To find out more about the Tough Techs, visit...
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Last week we went far into the past to the very first programmer, Ada Lovelace, but this week will be a bit more modern, with a current day app developer who made Hopscotch, an app that teaches kids how to code. Samantha John is only 28 years old, and she is already the co-founder of Hopscotch, Chief Technological Officer, and her app was featured at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference. Hopscotch has the ability to make games, animations, and...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
It's my favorite day of the week! The day I get to pull out my macro lens and take photos of the parts we have around the shop. This week there was an encoder ring, and an open transmission hanging around. the encoder ring has lovely small details, and the color in the transmission is beautifully deep. Technology has such a beautiful aesthetic!
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Monday, January 19, 2015
We've begun making robot parts on the mill, so for Machine Monday Reed, James, and Jake showed me what it does! It's pretty cool. It works like a drill press, which makes holes, but the mill is stable enough that it can also make slots by moving the piece slowly underneath the drill bit. Although it looks like a death machine, it's also pretty cool!
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
Yesterday we had a very busy night, starting with a Parent Booster Group meeting to begin planning our Week Zero Event, which will be happening at Merrimack High School on February 14th. Thank you to all parents who attended and volunteered your time and help, your efforts truly make events like Week Zero possible!
After the meeting we invited parents to join the mentors and all team members for our design review, where the design team presented...
It's time to feature another FRC team from the area. This week is a team who burns brighter than anyone else; in fiery orange, it's team 2342, Phoenix Robotics! This season we had the joy of working with team Phoenix to run an FLL Competition at our Merrimack High School. Phoenix's fantastic hand-made trophies and their willingness to help with any task proved that they are second to none. Thank you team Phoenix!
To find more information on...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Today is the day to appreciate the wonderful women in technology! Today we are going back to the beginning, to the woman who is considered the very first computer programmer, Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace.
Ada was the daughter of Poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke. Her mother had Ada tutored in mathematics and music, to counter the "dangerous poetic tendencies" of her father. She quickly became enraptured with mathematics...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
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