http://stormyscorner.com/2009/10/exciting-times-at-grace-hopper.html Mon, 21 May 2012 13:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/10/exciting-times-at-grace-hopper.html/comment-page-1#comment-476 stormy Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:12:17 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/10/exciting-times-at-grace-hopper.html#comment-476 Hi Murray, She pointed me here, <a href="http://spark.irobot.com/." rel="nofollow">http://spark.irobot.com/.</a> I haven't had a chance to look and learn what's available yet. Stormy Hi Murray,
She pointed me here, http://spark.irobot.com/. I haven’t had a chance to look and learn what’s available yet.
Stormy

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/10/exciting-times-at-grace-hopper.html/comment-page-1#comment-475 Lefty Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:20:28 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/10/exciting-times-at-grace-hopper.html#comment-475 There was some guy, from Finland as I recall, but maybe not a Nokian, at GUADEC in Birmingham who was doing robotics with Nokia N800s. He had a sort of Aibo-like dog, and another one I'm not remembering as well. Pretty cool stuff, but I can't recall his name... Anyone else remember that? Know who I'm talking about? There was some guy, from Finland as I recall, but maybe not a Nokian, at GUADEC in Birmingham who was doing robotics with Nokia N800s. He had a sort of Aibo-like dog, and another one I’m not remembering as well. Pretty cool stuff, but I can’t recall his name…
Anyone else remember that? Know who I’m talking about?

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/10/exciting-times-at-grace-hopper.html/comment-page-1#comment-474 Murray Cumming Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:42:18 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/10/exciting-times-at-grace-hopper.html#comment-474 > For example, I spoke to the woman who works at iRobot on reaching out to kids to encourage kids to get involved in robotics Ooh. Any URLs for that project? Robotics seems like the perfect mix of playfully purposeful software and mechanics for kids. > For example, I spoke to the woman who works at iRobot on reaching out to kids to encourage kids to get involved in robotics
Ooh. Any URLs for that project? Robotics seems like the perfect mix of playfully purposeful software and mechanics for kids.

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