Gadgetory

welcome to the Robo lunch party we're here in San Francisco having a great time we've had some teams come out to compete and win prizes for charity so all the teams were using the new ev3 set which is the next evolution of robotics for Lego Mindstorms I'm David Hill yeah I'm with the Facebook team and this is a robot Johnny that we've built over the last couple of days using the new Lego kit basically he's doing a hit from a t-ball and then runs the baseball diamond and does a little victory dance at the end my name is sherry Cawood and i'm with the team instructables and what we built today is called robit' and he is a true San Franciscan robot and that he cannot put down his phone he looks at it and he walks around and he bumps into everything hi my name is Lawrence County I'm part of team Pandora we're here at the lego robotics competition we made a giant pitcher and an athletics batter and they play a little game baseball my name is Ross arms and I'm with Flickr and we built the Emperor Norton bot Emperor Norton was an 1850s San Francisco historical figure among other things he tried to dissolve Congress and though penniless the ADA local restaurants issuing his own currency education wise these toys are great for learning to program learning mechanics learning just salt problem solving in general so we use our technology working with Lego to integrate into making instructions that are manipulated in 3d so it makes it very accessible and very easy to use for younger and younger children so here's a nice example of a creation done again with the parts from one set it's a little printer you got one motor here that will bring the sharpie pen up and down and you've got another motor that will slide the pen across the the paper here Lego ev3 so it's electric guitar designed by daniela he's an italian fan of Lego you