Team 968 RAWC

FRC Team 968 RAWC is a FIRST robotics team. We strive to provide high school students with opportunities to experience real world engineering through robotics.

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3-D printing may allow the visually impaired to experience visual art

Currently raising funds through an Indiegogo campaign, Unseen Art aims to develop a software platform that will bring visual art into the 3-D world. And best of all, they’re going to make sure it gets in the hands of those who need it.

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WATCH: A Giant Pair of Pneumatic Articulating Feather Wings (video)

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“It’s the next best thing to being rescued.”

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Julie Alice Chappel - Circuitry Insects series!

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A man has built Ogo, a hands-free wheelchair for his paraplegic friend (video)

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Holy shit this is awesome.

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This makes so much more sense than a damn segway. Everyone who bought a segway should buy one of these and give it to someone who needs it.

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Non-Newtonian fluids are capable of all kinds of counter-intuitive behaviors. The animations above demonstrate one of them: the tubeless or open siphon. Once the effect is triggered by removing some of the liquid, the fluid quickly pours itself out of the beaker. This is possible thanks to the polymers in the liquid. The falling liquid pulls on the fluid left behind in the beaker, which stretches the polymers in the fluid. When stretched, the polymers provide internal tension that opposes the extensional force being applied. This keeps the fluid in the beaker from simply detaching from the falling liquid. Instead, it flows up and over the side against the force of gravity, behaving rather more like a chain than a fluid!  (Image credit: Ewoldt Research Group, source)

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Bristol-based Open Bionics says it is trying to boost the confidence of children who need to use prosthetic limbs and to get them excited with the bright designs. 

The company is using 3D printing to keep the cost affordable but, with the increased focus on the designs, they hope to make the prosthetics something the wearer can be proud of, as well as something that makes their lives easier.

The Walt Disney Company donated royalty-free licences and artwork from the three hit movies for the limbs.

According to the Open Bionics website, children will not only get the medical devices they need but will also get bionic hands inspired by their favourite characters.

“(Children) won’t have to do boring physical therapy - they’ll train to become heroes,” the website reads.

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Also, can we just talk about how Sydney is the most perfect and awesome Avenger? :D

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Watch the video of this man giving away his software for free to help people with degenerative diseases communicate

[dennys]

AvoCADo!

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[rudescience]

^THIS

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Our team needs funding!

http://www.gofundme.com/wv2s3758

That’s the link to our gofundme, where we’re trying to raise enough money to enter in competitions!

Sorry to do this to you guys, but we’re a broke homeschool team with literally no sponsors or donators!  We’d really appreciate any help you guys can give us!!

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The arm was designed and built just for Isabella by Team Unlimbited volunteer Stephen Davies. On average, prosthetics cost more than $10,000. However, an e-Nable limb ranges from $50 to $150 in price, which means more people can get prosthetic devices!

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This is huge

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:) :) :) :) :)

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File under: when modern advances in technology don’t scare me at all

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Anyone: *loses me in a room*

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me, ramming through door while riding in the robot:dId sOmEoNe sAy RoBoTs???!?!

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4 Engineering Students have Developed a Device that Converts Sign Language into Voice and Text - The Better India

Kudos to this innovative all-girls team!

(S)heroes!

The students’ Gesture Vocaliser understands simple sign language gestures and will say them out loud. 

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This is amazing for medical reasons isn’t it

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THAT’S AMAZAING 🙌🙌🙌🙌

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The students’ names are Minu Varghese, S. Deepthi, Delna Domini, and Nimya Varghese.

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Talking to Mars: new antenna design could aid interplanetary communication

New research provides a compact but powerful way for Mars rovers to communicate directly with Earth via an array of smaller antenna elements, bypassing the need for an intermediary.

Our antenna “organs” begin with a specialized geometry that looks like half of the letter “E.” We derived it from the original E-shaped antenna design we’ve already had a lot of success with. This novel “half-E” shape allows the antenna to transmit and receive radio signals which are circularly polarized. Basically that means the polarization of the radio waves can be oriented in a special configuration that helps reduce the effects of atmospheric gases and particles on the waves as they travel. It can also help to make sure a strong signal is maintained even if the rover itself or the antennas are moving.

When enough of these antenna elements – 256 in this case – are combined together just right into what antenna engineers call an array, the whole can transmit and receive much greater power.

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