Blog Purpose

Having just come back from the 2010 Global Conference on Educational Robotics held at the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, I am really pumped to do my own robot. I accompanied 7 high school students as a chaperone and was very impressed with what was being done by these students in the area of robotics. I was also impressed when I realized that they were going through an engineering development process which involved aspects of EE, computer science, mechanical engineering, general design, and general problem solution. No matter what the students do in later life, they will have learned some valuable lessons on problem resolution. My grandson was one of the programmers on the team and will be going into his senior year in the fall. I have resolved to build a robot from spare parts to help coach him along in his programming. Also it should be a lot of fun, hence the name of this blog.