FIRST and WRO Robotics Competitions in South Africa FIRST (For Inspiration in Robotics Science and Technology) and WRO (World Robot Olympiad) are two robotics competitions in South Africa that use the...
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Why consider robotics at school level? There are many reasons why schools and parents should consider robotics at school level. Here are my top three reasons: Children develop their understanding of...
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Why robotics for young children? In 2015, Marina Bers, a Professor at Tufts University in Boston, published a whitepaper out the learning outcomes of an eight week robotics curriculum for kids aged be...
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Robotics is becoming an increasingly hot topic The reality is humans are fragile and weak Robotic and automated material handling is especially valuable in areas, laboratories and manufacturing plants...
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This is an amazing piece of 3D printing work! The T8 spider robot from RobugTix ( +Robugtix ) weighs 1.00kg and is about the size of an A4 sheet of paper. Just watch the video and see how smooth ...
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African Robotics Network Challenge The following AFRON (African Robotics Network) Challenge has come to my attention and I would like to share it with you: The Ultra Affordable Educational Robot Proj...
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Lego Holiday training program During the school break between the 2nd and 3rd terms there will be a Lego Robotics training program taking place at UNISA aimed at +FIRST Lego League South Africa ‘...
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Part of a line follower project This post forms part of my Line Following Robot project and will serve as my research for how to accurately control the speed and direction of the line follower. What i...
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The FIRST Lego League South Africa FLL SA have sent out the following information via email and it seems the competition is growing in leaps and bounds and Robotics in South Africa cont...
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Lego Robotics Training Engenius Toys Now know as Toy Adventures is a LEGO distributor and they are situated in the Fourways Mall (Johannesburg) and in the Garden Route Mall (George). They send out a...
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