Falcon Robotics Retreat

We had a very eventful weekend!

Microchip masters

It was great going to do a robot scrimage demo for Microchip. Had great Pizza! and talked to many people from all over the world. Saw John Oliver there too.

Faridodin Lajvardi aka Ledge at TEDx

Here is the video of the TEDx Presentation I did about a year ago. It came out nice. Enjoy!

Richard Ruelas Visits with David Wallace the Photographer

Here are the videos from the story that Richard and David did for us. Thanks a million!







Here is a link to a great slide show with audio!
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/arizona-robotics-teacher-slideshow.html

Here is alink to a set of pictures
http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/commphotos/show.php?colid=15157&slide_nbr=1&fAZ=1&HTTP_REFERER=http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/arizona-robotics-teacher-slideshow.html#1

Thermal test

We did a thermal test of the Victor motor speed controller that is been underwater for 6 days! No leaks and all is operational!

We did a thermal test by keeping the motor shaft imobile and cranking up the current to about 22 amps and caused the auto reset breaker to keep tripping for about 20 minutes. We were only able to read a 1 degree temp increase on the surface of the epoxy resin with an underwater thermometer. The motor did get hot as well as the breaker.

We think maybe the heat was dissipated to the body of the epoxy and dispersed to the water.

Cornell Conference call

We had a great conference call with JB Radjksi from the AUV Team at Cornell. He really help us out alot. We are better prepared to ask more intelligent questions when we go to our San Diego trip to do research for the AUV we are building

Alex Rivera visits!

http://alexrivera.com/

Movie producer Alex Rivera visited the robotics program today. He really seemed to love it. He made Sleep Dealer, good movie goo see it!

USA Science fair expo

Today we with held a confrence call with Julie Strategos and Deanna Rockefeller with Lockhead Martin. They want us in DC from Oct 20 to 25th. We will be on stage Sat and Sunday for 30 min to show case the EVROV and the ROV
Here is the link
http://www.usasciencefestival.org/