We are happy to announce that mini-competition are back. We are beginning with these 2 first event that are very popular at the robot games. Completions will happen on Saturday Mornings, at the Aerospace museum of Calgary.

August 28 – Mini-Sumo: beginner to master.

September25- Full size sumo – autonomous and  remote controlled.

Other competitions will be Announced and schedule later for October and so on.

Mini competitions are the  perfect opportunity to get started in robotic competition. So you can test your robot and settings to improve your level for the annual Robot Games.

-Competitors: Fees for the mini-sumo will be around 5$. please refer to WCRG 2010 rule book. Confirming your presence in advance would be appreciate, by emailing to:  info@mail.robotgames.com

Calgary Fire department got this cool robot in the early 80s. Volunteers at WCRS helped to refresh it and make it alive again

fire plug july 2010-video

WCRS is now expending its activities and now offering a new meet-up night for intermediate and more advanced robot builders.Also we still keep having our Saturday meeting the same as it is, open to everyone, with assistance on your project by WCRS members. Although Wednesday nights, would be an opportunity to go further; to share more in-depth knowledge about robotics related technologies.It would be also a time for the executive to a have briefing or their monthly meeting.

So Wednesday night at the Aerospace museum, from 7 to 9 pm.

WCRS will need volunteers to execute an important improvement at our home (Aerospace Museum). The project is to redo the network cable, from scratch, in a professional way. The benefit will be a better performance and smoother operation of the computers. In order to achieve it, we need as much volunteers as possible. We will make teams of 2 person, with a more experienced guy in each team if possible. We would work a good part of the day. There will be a meal available at lunch time.

Feel free to contact me at: dave.levesque@mail.robotames.com

Your help will be truly appreciate, on Sunday, July 11

What a blast! I hope you were all able to make it out this year!

I have submitted some clips to Discovery Channel for their PlanetYou segments. All videos will be available here:

PlanetYou

More will be uploaded as I can convert them!

Well, we are 12 hours away from the 2010 Robot Games! The event will take place at the Calgary Aerospace Museum:

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I will be filming the event, so bring out your robots to make them famous!

-Bryan

http://www.festo.com/cms/de_de/5890.htm

In Google translated German:

Air is the element of AirJelly. The remote does not swim through water jellyfish AirJelly as AquaJelly, but literally glides through its central electric drive and an intelligent adaptive mechanism by the sea air. For AirJelly consists of a helium-filled ballonet.

As the only energy source used AirJelly two lithium-ion polymer batteries to which the central electric drive is connected. This transfers the force to a bevel gear and then successively to eight spur gears, which move about cranking the eight tentacles of the jellyfish. Each tentacle is as a structure with Fin Ray Effect® trained. The drive of a balloon by means of peristaltic motion is currently not in the history of aviation. AirJelly is the first indoor flying object with peristaltic drive. The jellyfish moves through this new drive concept based on the reaction principle of their propulsion, gently through the air.

There’s also an AirRay – a mechanical manta ray

Just for the fun of it.

From Facebook, via Wowee

And how true it is.

http://blog.beetlebum.de/2010/03/08/arduino/