Landroids hosted the MoonBots Exhibition at the 1st annual NJ RoboFest as part of the NJ Science and Engineering Festival on October 23, 2010. We also participated in the NJ FTC scrimmage, tested our robot for the first time. Talk about a double duty busy day! (See the LRC documentary video) Read more »
Our FIRST pioneer Dean Kamen is hosting a new TV series on the Discovery Channel/Planet Green called the “Dean of Invention“, a new show dedicated to the world’s greatest scientific breakthroughs of today.
Want to see more of Dean in his signature blue jean shirt? Tune in on October 22, 2010 at 10/9c PM for the first two episodes “Meet the Microbots” and “Building the Bionic Body “.
As a part of the 1st place grand prize international Google X PRIZE MoonBots Challenge winner, the Landroids was invited by the LEGO Group to visit the LEGO headquarter at Billund, Denmark. It was a fun-packed, 3-day, 3-night, a chance of the life time trip last week. Read more »
The 3rd annual unofficial NJ FLL Team Directory 2010-11 is now here. A total of 168 New Jersey teams had signed up to compete in the “Body Forward” season.
This year, the contact information is not included in the directory. Any team who wants to provide contact and website information on the directory for networking, recruiting or mentoring purposes, please contact coach@landroids.org directly with updated information.
Landroids is now formally a FIRST Tech Challenge team #4220 for the “Get Over It” season. This weekend, we finally opened our FTC kit, got our new team shirts (the FLL shirts are full of holes from the buttons collected), and attended the NJ FTC kickoff party on 9/11/10. We are a rookie FTC team with five 9th graders and one 10th grader.
After four months of Moonbots competition, on September 1, 2010, the X PRIZE Foundation and the LEGO Group announced team Landroids as the Moonbots grand prize winner, and will be invited to Denmark to visit the LEGO headquarter plus receiving $1,300 for the FTC registration kit!
See here for the 2010 Moonbots winner and award list. Congratulations and thank you to all 2010 Moonbots teams. You all have been our inspiration and motivation to keep moving forward! Read more »
Landroids Moonbots robot mission live webcast on August 24, 2010 at 3 PM ET.
A three-minute long, one program, fully autonomous robot mission run, transmitted via Skype to the MoonBots judges at a pre-designated time. Each robot also needs to equip with an on-board camera with time stamp to record the actual run, then upload the footage onto YouTube. Read more »
All those long summer days and nights are counting down to the last 24 hours of the Moonbots competition deadline on August 22, 2010, midnight. Actually, it has been more like long nights and short summer, with all work and little play. Landroids is wrapping up our files and programming, with only 3 men left standing…or sleeping, so there is no team meeting this weekend. We will get together for the Moonbots live webcast on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, noon EST. For now, here is a preview of our robot mission run. Read more »
It wasn’t easy, but we managed. It was the first time this summer when we were able to round up most of the team members (except for Brian who is out of the country) to attend the NJ FTC workshop. Everyone has either been on vacation, attending summer schools or summer camps, or taking turn working on Moonbots Phase 2 Challenge. As our team transition from FLL to FTC as team #4220 this September, there are so much to learn. We have also added two new members for FTC, Sam and Vijay, so the FTC workshop was a nice opportunity for everyone to meet and greet. We learned about robot construction, RobotC and LabView programming and was introduced to PTC.
Landroids is celebrating our 3rd-year team anniversary on August 1! See our team video.
Exactly 3 years ago on this day, invitation letters from our head coach were sent to a group of 6th grade neighborhood students, who came together to form the FIRST LEGO League team Landroids and Livingston Robotics Club (LRC).
In three years, it went from one team, 7 members, 2 coaches, to today’s 10 LRC teams, 60 members and 12 parent coaches, participating in FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and Jr. FIRST LEGO League (Jr. FLL) in Livingston area.
The Landroids members have also grown up, grew taller, and now readied to move up to FIRST Tech Challenge in this coming season as FTC team #4220!
It is here! Some of the FLL teams have received the “Body Forward” field kit already. If you have not register a team yet, best to hurry up. Have fun and good luck!
Landroids is the 2010 eCYBERMISSION National Judging Educational Event (NJEE) 1st place 8th grade National Winner!
This US Army sponsored free web-base science competition has awarded the Landroids $32,000 of EE bond on June 25, 2010.
See our Facebook postings for more event photos and videos and US Army’s press release.
Landroids is one of the 20 teams selected to proceed to Moonbots Phase 2 challenge!
A total of 212 teams from 16 countries participated in the Moonbots Challenge from April 15 to May 28, 2010, each team was to produce a research video blog, conceptual robot design rendering using LEGO Digital Designer and create a blog site. Only 20 teams will advance to Phase 2 to construct a robot to perform the pre-determine lunar missions by August 14, 2010. For a complete list of Phase 2 teams, click here. For details on our team’s Moonbots challenge, see our LUNAR LANDROIDS website.
Read about Landroids’ team spotlight on the eCYBERMISSION blog and learn about our Deer Avoidance project. See other 2010 regional winners in the May and June issues of the eCYBERMISSION blog.
Thank you, all you participants, volunteers and exhibitors who made the Livingston Jr. FLL Expo and Bike Rodeo a success on May 29, 2010! Photos from the event are posted on Landroids Facebook. Be our fan and keep up with the latest news and photos! For Jr. FLL Expo award results, click here, also see TheAlternativePress and West Essex Tribune.
Lunar Landroids is a special Landroids blog released on May 28, 2010, dedicated to the 2010 Moonbots Challenge. Our team documented all the sensor testings (Gyro, EOPD, Compass, Accelerometer, IR Link, Ultrasonic, etc.), robot design, LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) renderings, and the process of making our video essay during our 5 weeks of Phase 1 design. Check out this new website for design information and inspirations!
Better late than never…Landroids has decided to sign up for the international Moonbots challenge with an upcoming Phase 1 deadline of May 28, 2010! Read more »
Landroids’ FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Smart Move “Deer Avoidance” research project has won the 2010 eCYBERMISSION 8th grade Northeast Regional 1st place Award!
Landroids will be one of the 16 out of 3,306 (grades 6 to 9) teams in the country to compete at the National Judging & Educational Event (NJ&EE) during the week of June 21, 2010.
What can be more rewarding than competing at the World Festival? Volunteering of course! (Also see team member’s reflection on this experience). Read more »
Landroids was nominated as a FIRST LEGO League Core Value team. Read more »
Lancers FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) team from Livingston High School, NJ won the NYC FTC Inspire Award on 3/13/10 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Read more »
For pictures from the New Jersey FIRST Robotics Competition 3/7/10, visit Landroids’ Facebook for our photo collections and team updates.
The 3rd annual Liberty Science Center Engineers Week Robotics Exhibition host by the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) team Landroids #109 will be held on President’s Day, Monday, February 15, 2010, 10 AM – 3 PM.
See Team Landroids Facebook and nycnjfirst.org website for event photos.
This event showcases the top NJ teams from the 2009/10 season. This year will also include representative teams from the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) and Jr. FIRST LEGO League (Jr.FLL). More than 80 volunteer teams and coaches are participating in this event.
Team Landroids spent the Super Bowl Sunday (2/7/10) volunteered as queuers and field re-setters at the New Jersey FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) State tournament. Our team had fun watching the Livingston high school FTC team Lancers compete in their first official FTC tournament, and say hi to some of the FLL veteran teams such as Say Watt? and Fear the Gears (formerly the RoboInvaiders).
Congratulations to Say Watts for receiving the NJ and DE State Inspire Award; and The reVOLT and Fatal Error from Pope John Robotics for receiving the Winning Alliance! All three teams will meet up at Liberty Science Center for a joint exhibition event, then battle it out again at Atlanta. Good Luck to you all!
Three seasons (2-1/2 years) of FIRST LEGO League, a life time of best friends since kindergarten. Year-round of hard work, research, playing, exhibitions, competitions and FLL outreach.
On December 12th, Forty-six teams from 9 qualifying tournaments throughout the State gathered at the 2009 New Jersey FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Smart Move State Championship tournament at Mt. Olive High School. Five teams from Livingston Robotics Club (LRC) participated in this all-day event. Landroids #109 took the 1st place Robot Design Award while Thunderclan #3375 from LRC covered the 2nd place Robot Design Award. Read more »
For the season-long newsletter coverages on Livingston Robotics Club, see:
The AlternativePress, November 30, 2009
HCHY of Livingston, LRC news
Email: coach@landroids.org
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