SPIRIT Fall Workshop November 10, 2007
Workshop AGENDA 8:00-8:30 AM Donuts and coffee in the Faculty lounge for kibitzing 8:30-8:45 AM Welcome, paperwork for workshop stipend, and participant status sheet (Bing and Neal) 8:45-9:00 AM Plan for this morning's workshop 9:00-9:15 AM Review of the SPIRIT Evaluation Website and TekBot Website (Neal Grandgenett / Bill Schnase / Steve Eggerling) 9:15-9:45 AM Sharing by teachers of their educational "Successes and Challenges" to date (moderated by Neal) 9:45-10:00 AM CEEN students on how they got to be an engineering student and demo of a TekBot on Steroids followed by coffee break as part of the demo 10:00-10:15 AM Coffee break 10:15-10:30 AM Technical Q&A (Herb, Roger, Alisa, Deb and Ken) 10:30-12:00 Noon Activity: Build wired remote controller for remaining TekBots (PKI 305-311 lab)
TekBot Projects for Future SPIRIT Workshops Infrared controller with universal remote IR detector Counter circuits (for bump sensors and wheel rotations) Basic Stamp-microprocessor Music on the TekBot