The Birth of imagiNation

Hello, and Welcome back to yet another year of the Aggie Tech Club.  This afternoon, amidst the pouring rain, we brainstormed and designed our first project of the year... a remote controlled robot!

Here are the sketches and an early computerized design:

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Tearing it up once again

Today Owen, Shoniece, and Jasmine took apart various electronic gadgets searching for parts to build with.
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Owen installed a bootable Ubuntu v9 onto a thumb-drive for college use.
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The girls worked on making videos using MPEG technology.

Tearin it up.

Today, Rob and Owen took apart several electrical gadgets trying to understand how they worked.

Batteries Not Included

Today we began to make a Battery Pack out of Nickels, Pennies, and H2O.  We tested it on a LED (light emitting diode), and discovered that the Water was not much of an electrolyte.  Next time we'll add salt.

We also discussed some of the ways to help the seniors use Linux when they get to college.  One way would be to create a bootable jump drive.

The Open Source DVD Player and Cities of Tech Club

Jasmine and Shoneice discovered the beauty of Cities made of Motherboards while Owen continued to configure a machine to serve as an Open Source DVD Player using Slitaz (a 30MB Linux Based O.S.).  We did have several visitors today as well!  Must be getting close to graduation!

Tech Club Cancelled due to Rain

It's strange because in Spain, the rain stays mainly in the plains, but on the North Shore, it stays mainly in peoples basements!

Tie Day Extravaganza!

Jasmine, Shoniece and Brian evaluated several online methods of tying a tie.  One of the best resources we found was : Tie-A-Tie.net