Prizes? For me? Wow!!!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Monday, October 20th, 2008

Apparently I won a prize for placing 10th in the DVICE MAKE Cylon competition!! I got a MAKE the FIRST YEAR (autographed) boxed set of 4 zines, and a 1 year sub to SciFi mag! :D!!

The SciFi mag has Chuck in it… coool!!

That made my day! Definitely worth paying the $30 for shipping. At least I got a prize!! (Remember: I wasn’t even eligible to enter this competition) =P!

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So yeah… my robot (MANOI, with the Arduino-SSC-32 to Processing program) WAS working, now it isn’t. I’m not entirely sure what I changed :X! Debugging again and again…

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|Advanced Order| and |Thanks, MAKE!|

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Thanks to MAKE for featuring my Styrobots. I really appreciate the encore! Encore encore encore! Yay!!

There is one Styrobot left - Spideygoo - in my Etsy store.

The next ones that I’ll be uploading (fruity themed!) will all be advanced order. Meaning, the switch, battery, and motor have not been installed yet, and they will only ship when I come back from the Stanford trip.
Also- I figured out a way to connect many Arduinos together without using a computer as a central hub. It will sort of be the speed of light minus processing time. Kind of like Fibre optics but a bit different. I think it will work well! I’m going to be using this knowledge to make a super powered Wall-E robot with AI.

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$10 from uC Hobby

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Saturday, March 29th, 2008

As I found featured on MAKE emails in my inbox, I also found something else. A $10 donation from David Fowler from uC Hobby! Believe it or not, I could not believe it was true! I even double checked that it was the real PayPal.
This $10 will go an extremely long way! I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to buy just yet, but it will most likely be a used book from amazon That way, I can learn more about robotics!

I’m just completely astonished! The first real donation to my Robotic Fund. I’m extremely flattered, honestly!

Thank you so much, David & uC Hobby!

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Featured on MAKE!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Wow, what a brilliant surprise! After playing around with BubbleBoy, I go to check my email. I noticed that there were two new comments on my blog, which is rather peculiar! I checked it out, then shrieked out loud “I’M ON MAKEZINE!”. Wooooooooooo! I was sooooo (and still am) thrilled! A few seconds later, after playing the video to ensure it was my BristleBot, I sent a thank-you email right away to JBC, the person that made the article.
JBC has a blog, you can check it out here: coin-op. One of the really neat projects is one called PoliceState. Check it out! I like the look of the cars, really stylish.
I’m just so absolutely honoured, flattered, and blabber-ghasted! Thank you so much!! So, check it out on MAKE!

Oh yeah, one more thing - BristleBot says thanks too.

Posted in: News, Projects, Robot, Robot News, Tech News.