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		<title>NXTified Wipeout Style Obstacle Course</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 03:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our Monday club at Kid&#8217;s Community College, we decided to take a break from the FLL mats and work on something a little more open ended. I&#8217;m sure most everyone is familiar with the crazy TV Show Wipeout. We are going to build a few sections of their brutally fun obstacle course using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NXT Astro Blasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 01:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems the NXTified Astro Blaster&#8217;s game turned out to be a popular idea! For the last couple of weeks, we&#8217;ve been building up two drivable robots that will be remote controlled using Mindsensor&#8217;s Sony PlayStation 2 Controller interfaces for NXT. So far, we have a platform, a hopper to store the balls, and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Tampa Club Needs a New Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re wrapping up ButlerBot and our North Tampa Robotics Club is now in search of a new project idea! Contender #1 is a LEGO MINDSTORMS version of the Buzz Lightyear Astroblasters ride at DisneyQuest. Here is a fan video. Each robot will be outfitted with a target. I have a nice collection of LEGO foam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come See Us at the Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our North Tampa Robotics Club is bringing ButlerBot to the Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire on March 31st! Our little group has been hard at working building an NXT robot controlled by an XBox 360 Kinect controller. We&#8217;re excited to be there to show off what the kids and their dad&#8217;s accomplished. What is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New South Tampa Robotics Camp Posted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know many of you are already planning your summers so we have been working extra hard to find a venue for our South Tampa Robotics Camp. I&#8217;m pleased to announce our first session is now open for registration the week of June 11-15, 2012. There will be many all new activities along with some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unusual Ball Shooter Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few weeks, a number of kids at MacFarlane Park IB Elementary have been working on ideas for a couple of GBC modules. One of the kids decided he wanted to build a ball shooter to feed a ramp he built using some large, quarter round slopes. I helped him put his ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Register now for our final Jr. FLL Snack Attack Team</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we have our first semester Jr. FLL program all buttoned up, we&#8217;re ready to host another team! I have three open spots for a team forming in Carrollwood on Thursday evenings. First semester, over 50 students representing 11 teams participated in Snack Attack. For this semester, the program lasts from six to eight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scooba Battery Tear Down</title>
		<link>http://inanimatereason.com/blog/2012/02/scooba-battery-tear-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find myself in possession of two dead Irobot Scooba Battery Packs and no working robotic floor mops. I decided it was worth doing the tear down on one just to see how tough it could be to rebuild it myself. It took about 30 minutes only because I tried to be careful not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLL Regional Qualifier &#8211; Here we come!</title>
		<link>http://inanimatereason.com/blog/2012/01/fll-regional-qualifier-here-we-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so pleased that all three of my FIRST LEGO League teams qualified to move on to the regional qualifier here in Tampa! Not only did they qualify, they&#8217;ve all stepped up their game to give their best possible showing at the event! Win or lose, I&#8217;m proud of the integrity and dedication they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview about FIRST and FLL in the Brandon Patch</title>
		<link>http://inanimatereason.com/blog/2012/01/interview-about-first-and-fll-in-the-brandon-patch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linda Chion Kenney from the Brandon Patch interviewed me today at a local FLL tournament. Patch Talk: Bill Shaw on Lego, Kids, Mindstorms, Robotics and MOSI My grammar was really bad but I was between rounds and pretty frazzled. Still, it was a nice piece of press! My teams did really well today. They stepped [...]]]></description>
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