Katie took an evening to write a presentation and call a “family meeting”. Here’s her argument for a cellphone.
MY TOP REASONS WHY I NEED I CELL PHONE!!!!
by katie hoffswell
Reason 1, After School Activities
Since I am now in 6th grade and have after school activities to go [...]
In June I spoke on the subject of building Fiber Optic networks at the 2006 Merit Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Once again, Merit recorded the event.
Building Fiber to Control Your Future: A Panel Discussion on the Challenges and Opportunities
Jim Moran, Merit Network, moderator; Bob Eluskie, Grand Rapids Community College; Pete Hoffswell, [...]
It’s Tulip Time in Holland Michigan!
Ok enough on that subject. It’s also FIRST robotics competition season across the country. This year 3 teams from the Holland area are heading to Atlanta for the national championship. Good luck!
My own challenge, to develop a TableBot from my VEX kit is progressing nicely.
TableBot version [...]
My work on the TableBot continues. I now have a basic program that, in pseudocode:
10 move to edge of table
20 back up
30 turn around
40 go to 10
Here is a video of my first test, with Maggie, my assistant.
The programming and design have some obvious issues. The main problem is that the table [...]
I spent the afternoon working on a simple robot. It’s great! This first pciture shows my initial build of the manual’s Square-Bot, and Felix the cat investigating. I quickly tore that apart, and moved on to a robot designed to operate the TableBot parameters as outlined by Camp Peavy. The TableBot [...]
In highschool I worked for Rhino Robots of Champaign Illinois. Production was in a machine shop, where we created most parts and assembled the Rhino XR-1 robotic arm. The arm was targeted towards education and expermentation. It was a great experience.
In the 90’s Lego came out with their Mindstorm set, that featured [...]