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RoboCup Junior Regional and State registrations are now open

July 21, 2016 Evan Predavec 0 Comments

The wonderful RoboCup Junior is back again. This year’s Sydney Regional Competition will be held at St Pius X Chatswood

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RoboCup soccer – Australia loses crown

July 15, 2016July 15, 2016 Evan Predavec 0 Comments

Australia’s reigning robot soccer world champions did not manage to retain the coveted crown in robotics and artificial intelligence at the RoboCup World Championships in

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Programming Robotics 

Open Roberta continues to develop – now with added English

June 8, 2016June 8, 2016 Evan Predavec 1 Comment

Open Roberta is a free cloud-based platform to program the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 using the Scratch like Blockly-library from Google. Since I

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Activities Robotics 

Free talk about talking to robots

January 18, 2016January 18, 2016 Evan Predavec 0 Comments

Robots may soon be delivering pizza and parcels, driving cars and helping the kids with their homework. How will they

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Robots for younger kids

January 11, 2016January 11, 2016 Evan Predavec 0 Comments

I’m not sure what the collective noun for robots is (an ‘invasion’?), but there’s certainly been a lot of robots for

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Asia-Pacific Robotics Championship coming in December

November 4, 2015November 4, 2015 Evan Predavec 0 Comments

The Asia-Pacific Robotics Championship is an international event which aims to promote robotic education to young people in the Asia-Pacific

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Review: Sainsmart 4WD Robot Kit, not for the fainthearted

July 21, 2015 Evan Predavec 0 Comments Sainsmart 4WD Robot Kit

Over the last few months I’ve had a couple of groups of students playing with the Sainsmart 4WD Robot Kit, with

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Judging student IT competitions

November 30, 2015March 17, 2016 Evan Predavec 0

Student competitions involving coding and technology are proliferating. They are a fine, fine thing and a great way to incentivise

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Adults Featured Internet Life in general 

It’s a crime to be a woman on the Internet

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Technology and ethics: pretend someone is watching

June 15, 2012June 22, 2012 Evan Predavec 8
When maps lie, and why it matters
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When maps lie, and why it matters

May 23, 2012June 22, 2012 Evan Predavec 3
Why LEGO costs more in Australia
Featured Opinion Toys 

Why LEGO costs more in Australia

May 21, 2012June 22, 2012 Evan Predavec 19
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Featured Kids Life in general 

Teach kids to type, and they’ll have all the fish they want

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