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Robotic Mining Competition Live on NASA USTREAM, Friday 20-May
The 49er Miners will have their second competition run on Friday morning. Source: NASA DLiNfo1 on USTREAM: NASA’s DLiNfo Channel provides science, technology, engineering, and mathematics or STEM webcasts from the 10 DLN studios. We fea…
Video of a Magnetically Geared Wind Turbine produce by UNC Charlotte Senior Design Students
Recent DoE visit and video of the newest gearbox running
Last week was incredibly active with conferences in Alabama (me) and Italy (Dr. Bird) and the UNC Coastal Studies Institute Ocean Energy Symposium (both of us). Prior to that we enjoyed a visit from Michael Haan who toured our labs … Continue reading
New Equipment in the Automated Manufacturing Cell
The past few weeks have been busy with the acquisition of two new pieces of equipment for the Mission Critical Operations Automated Manufacturing Cell. The Lulzbot Mini is a 3D printer that uses Fused Filament Fabrication to produce parts with … Continue reading
New Graduate Researchers for Spring 2016
Spring 2016 has brought some new faces to our research groups. Sina Modaresahmadi has joined the Magnetic Gearing research group. He comes to UNC Charlotte from Iran and is pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Andrew Paustian has joined the … Continue reading
Madeline the Robot Tamer
“Madeline the Robot Tamer” is a really lovely video about Madeline Gannon, a woman who dances, so to speak, with robots. As a resident at Pier 9, she developed Quipt, “a gesture-based control software that Source: Madeline the Robot Tamer … Continue reading
Magnetically Geared Wind Turbine at Senior Design Expo
Brandon, Chris, Jarad, Josh, and Nick presented their work from the first semester of senior design earlier this month at the senior design expo. The group has been working to retrofit a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) with a magnetic … Continue reading
