12Blocks
Appearances:
- 4th April: Seminar Presentation at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ)
- 12th April: Yuri's Night at NASA's Moffet Field (San Jose, CA)
- 15-17th April: Part of the Parallax Booth at the Embedded System Conference (San Jose, CA)
- 18th June: Presentation on "Measuring Sensors with the Parallax Propeller and ViewPort" to KiwiBots- the Christchurch Robotics Group (Christchurch, NZ).
- 20th August: Vision based line follower with the DanceBot at the KiwiBots meeting. Here's an article and video (Christchurch, NZ)
- 24th October: Show and Tell at Kindergarden: "Robbie the Robot". Here's an article. (Christchurch, NZ)
- 19th December-15th January 2009: Botoxicated! Dancebot balances a flute of champagne for 4 weeks in an art exhibit. Here's an article (Christchurch, NZ)
- 29th April:Presentation to Homebrew Robotic Club: "Building Sophisticated Robots with ViewPort and the Parallax Propeller" Slides, Video(Silicon Valley, CA)
- 1st May:Demo at Willow Garage "Visual Interactions Powered by OpenCV" (Silicon Valley, CA)
- 11th May:"ViewPort Training Session" at Parallax Headquarters (Rocklin, CA)
- 12th May:Google Tech Talk: "How a Kiwi Built an Interactive Vision Guided Robot" (Google, Building 42)
- 27th June:Panellist at "Unofficial Propeller Expo West": "All Things Propeller" with Chip Gracey and Jeff Martin:Video
- 17th February 2010: Presentation on "12Blocks - A Graphical Language for the Propeller" to KiwiBots- the Christchurch Robotics Group (Christchurch, NZ).
Upcoming:
- 21th April 2010: Demo of "TBot" to KiwiBots- the Christchurch Robotics Group (Christchurch, NZ).
- 24th April 2010: Presentation on "12Blocks - A Graphical Language for the Propeller" to Robotics Society of Southern California (Southern CA).
- 28th April 2010: Presentation on "12Blocks - A Graphical Language for the Propeller" to HBRC- Silicon Valley's HomeBrew Robotics Club (Silicon Valley, CA).
- 11th May 2010: Demo at Parallax on "12Blocks, ViewPort, PropScope and TBot" (Rocklin, CA)
- 12th May 2010: Google Tech Talk on "12Blocks: A simple block language that lets kids program sophisticated multi-core robots" to Google (Mountain View, CA)
- 18th May 2010: Microsoft Talk on "12Blocks: A simple block language that lets kids program sophisticated multi-core robots" to Microsoft (Mountain View, CA)
In the Media:
- Radio Live Interview with Marcus Lush: "The two wheeled dancing robot", 11 March 2008 (6 minutes)
- Article in The Press: "Inventor chases dream with dancing robot", 10 March 2008
- Interview with Timesys LinuxLink Radio: "DanceBot", April 2008
- Article in Embedded Computing Magazine: "DanceBot and ViewPort", October 2008
- Article in The Parallaxian, Parallax's newsletter: "DanceBot and ViewPort", October 2008
- Article in The Press: "Christchurch Dancebot adds Booze", January 2009
- Parallax Press Release:"ViewPort Software Version 4.1 - Just Released", February 2009
- Feature Article in Circuit Cellar:"Vision-Guided Robotics-A Next-Generation Balancing Robot" - March 2009
- Article in Elektor:"Parallax releases ViewPort Software Version v4.1"- March 2009
- Article in Servo:"Parallax releases ViewPort Software Version v4.1"- April 2009
- Article in Nuts and Volts:"Parallax releases ViewPort Software Version v4.1"- April 2009
- Review of ViewPort in Robot- September/October 2009
- 12Blocks v1.0 Launched- November 2009
- Book co-authored by me: "Programming and Customizing the Multicore Propeller- The Official Guide" - January 2010
- Parallax Newsletter Feature Article:"12Blocks - A Graphical Language for the Propeller"-February 2010
- TV Interview: Natchitoches Inventor Helps Solve Cold Cases (Curtis uses ViewPort to look inside metal)- March 2010