Anith Gopal

This week Microsoft released an update to the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit. This includes updates to labs that we made available at BUILD as well as several new labs. The Training Kit is available in two different offline packages and is also available to browse online at MSDN

iRobot is probably the best known robotics company in the US.

This summer, my oldest son (age 9) has been plowing through every book in the library on electronics, robotics and astronomy that he can convince the public library to check out to him. His current fixation is BattleBots, because he hasn’t solved the “Earth orbit is a long way up” problem, yet.

Computers and vision – what’s up with that? Things we do with our eyes without out a seconds thought are difficult for computers. From Scott Lum  (@ scottlum ) I learned about a page outlining Computer imaging & vision projects from Microsoft Research Fascinating stuff.

Computers and vision – what’s up with that? Things we do with our eyes without out a seconds thought are difficult for computers

  C’est Rogerio Panigassi qui nous présente les finales de la catégorie Robotics : au menu, présentation des étudiants finalistes, des juges, et du fonctionnement de la finale. Avant d’en arriver là, les étudiants ont également fait de la programmation sur leurs robots respectifs : munis de caméras, ces derniers devaient réagir d’une manière ou une autre, à un mouvement, un objet, une couleur…

As well as controlling robotics both for industrial as well as hobby use we also give you two ways to program them. The first choice is to use C# coding and the second choice is to use a more graphical way of coding using VPL.

El martes pasado anunciamos que en las suscripciones MSDN Professional y MSDN Premium nuestros clientes podrán acceder a los siguientes productos: Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Standard Edition Microsoft CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime) and DSS (Decentralized Software Services) Toolkit 2008 Standard Edition Previamente solo la versión Express Edition (gratuita) del Robotics Studio estaba disponible a suscriptores, así que disfrútalos! Technorati Tags: Microsoft , MSDN , Robotics

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition is one of those events that is so amazing you just can’t describe.  If you ever have a chance to volunteer, mentor a team, or donate some cash to this organization don’t even think twice.  I volunteered at a regional event at NASA in Ohio and it’s truly life changing.  Oprah recently talked to three all-female teams from this year’s FIRST competition and the winners from 2007.  Read more about their inspiring stories here. What is FIRST ?  The passion of Dean Kamen, an accomplished inventor, founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) in 1989 to inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people

Мне часто задают вопрос про то, какие версии Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio существуют, чем они отличаются и где их можно взять. 1) Информация по существующим версиям Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Редакция Целевая аудитория Заметки Standard Edition Профессиональные разработчики Каждая лицензия Standard Edition позволяет пользователям распространять неограниченное количество копий CCR and DSS runtime. Более того, Microsoft не будет требовать с тех, кто распространяет CCR and DSS Runtime в рамках Standard Edition каких-либо дополнительных платежей.

Yesterday Bill Gates announced in the Government Leaders Forum , a big Government conference in Washington DC, the availability of Dreamspark for High Schools . All the professional tools included in Dreamspark are available there.

Yochay in the team has just released a Windows 7 Sensor and Location .NET Interop Sample onto MSDN.