Robots descend on Albuquerque

June 30, 2015 | Karen Schultz

Each year students, educators, enthusiasts, and professionals from across the world gather at the Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER) to connect with peers, discuss STEM, technology-related ideas, and cheer on their favorite teams during two exciting autonomous robot tournaments. The GCER 2015 conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on July 7-11 and […].

Tutorial: Part 2 – Gumstix and the iRobot Create 2

June 26, 2015 | Sergey Olkhovsky

In part two of the series, we will build the irobotcreate2 package from source to install on our host machine. But first, let’s have a preview of what we’re actually building! Check out the video below to see the Create 2 in action, exploring our office (skip to 0:53 to see it start moving and […].

Tutorial: Part 1 – Gumstix and the iRobot Create 2

June 24, 2015 | Sergey Olkhovsky

In this tutorial, learn how to use the iRobot Create 2 to drive around and stream video over the wireless network. We will control the iRobot Create 2 via WiFi from our laptop computer, using a PlayStation controller to steer.

Gumstix in Space

June 4, 2015 | Karen Schultz

NASA wants to turn CubeSats into the next planetary explorers and Gumstix can help do it. CubeSats are relatively inexpensive satellites that are low power, low weight, and small in size.