Ethics of Robotics – http://www.thetech.org/robotics/ethics/index.html
Robotics Timeline – http://www.thetech.org/robotics/timeline/index.html
History of robotics – http://www.thetech.org/robotics/universal/index.html
Robotics activity for kids
A short video showing a robotics activity kids could do.
http://www.wearyparent.com/video-my-sons-lego-mindstorms-robot-in-action/
More classroom activities: http://www.thetech.org/robotics/activities/index.html
Open Source Apps for Windows
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms
List Of Open-source Programs (LOOP) for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
What is the LOOP list?
This is a list of the best open-source applications that run on Windows. Feel free to edit this list and add any programs that meet the criteria below. The purpose of this list is to demonstrate the quality of open-source applications and advocate the open source software development model.
Free Video Editor – Avidemux
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.
Profiles in Science
http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=3357483
What science careers are available today? Watch five rising stars as they use science to do everything from building robots, to cleaning up the environment, to solving crimes.
NXT_Python
http://home.comcast.net/~dplau/nxt_python/index.html
NXT_Python is a package for controlling a LEGO NXT robot using the Python programming language. It can communicate using either USB or Bluetooth. It is available under the Free Software Foundation’s GPL license. It was developed on Fedora Core (Linux), but it has been reported to work on Windows XP and Mac OS X as well.
The programmable robot of ancient Greece
http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg19526111.600
New Scientist has a feature about the ‘worlds first’ programmable robot, dating from 60AD. It was designed by a Greek inventor called Hero.
NetWorkSpaces for parallel processing
http://www.lindaspaces.com/products/NWS_overview.html
Possibly a tool to demonstrate parallel programming.
NetWorkSpaces (NWS) is a powerful, open-source software package that makes it easy to use clusters from within scripting languages like Matlab, Python, and R. While these scripting languages are powerful and flexible development tools, their inherent ease of use can, in many cases, cause natural limitations
Mr. Woo’s robots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LIThTB8Ww&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthenxtstep%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F
A story about a self-taught robotics hobbyist in rural China.
