Project schoolBOT

by rtavk3 on May 15, 2013, 11:42 a.m.

TX/RX Labs is working on a really amazing project and we are excited to begin sharing it with the public. Our team of engineers and educators has designed a 3D printer from the ground up to maximize build speed and quality while still not sacrificing ease of use. We ...

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TX/RX Teaches Robotics to Local Students

by rtavk3 on April 17, 2013, 10 a.m.

A crew of TX/RX Members (Cody Jones, Wanjun Zhang, Roland von Kurnatowski) spent two days teaching robotics to a local group of middle-schoolers over spring break. It was a really fun course that taught the basics of arduino and then built upon that knowledge to program a line follower ...

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Recreational Computer Programming Group - Mar 10, 2013

by smcameron on March 10, 2013, 6:51 p.m.

The third meeting of the Recreational computer group took place today, March 10, 2013, and was well attended. Edwin G. presented some slides about the ant colony optimization algorithm which has applications in scheduling, routing and other areas. He also presented some information about the Maven build system used by ...

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New Tool: CNC mini lathe

by smcameron on March 2, 2013, 11:19 a.m.

A couple weeks ago TX/RX member Jeremy G. picked up a broken CNC mini-lathe at a local pawn shop for fifty bucks and brought it in. Within a few hours, he and other members Chris K., Roland K, and Greg S. had it up and running under the control ...

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RGB laser projector

by smcameron on Feb. 16, 2013, 4:52 p.m.

If you missed the open house this past Friday night (02/15/2013) at TX/RX labs, you missed a good show. Jeremy Van Grinsven brought in the RGB laser projector he's been working on over the last month. The projector contains three lasers, red, blue and green. The ...

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Recreational Computer Programming Group - Feb 2013

by smcameron on Feb. 11, 2013, 9:34 p.m.

This past Sunday, Feb. 10th, the 2nd meeting of the Recreational Computer Programming Group was held. Chris Ertel showed us some cool effects dynamically applied to webcam output via OpenGL shaders, and some interesting procedurally generated maps for some sort of zombie infection game. Marlin Mixon demonstrated an Android app ...

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Recreational Computer Programming Group: Guilloche patterns and a pure CSS golden rectangle

by chriscauley on Jan. 15, 2013, 5:15 p.m.

EDIT: I just saw a google+ post about this meetup, the next one is scheduled for February 10th at 1:30 pm. We don't have presenters yet so let me know if you have something to show off. We hope to see you there!

This Sunday TX/RX labs ...

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The Golden Rectangle in class free, pure css

by chriscauley on Jan. 15, 2013, 12:26 p.m.

The golden ratio has long fascinated mankind because blah blah blah... And the golden rectangle has aesthetic properties because of yadda yadda yadda... If you don't already know about this magical number, I'm not the person to educate you. Trust me, it's cool.

About a year ago ...

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Extending the WMD Editor Buttons

by chriscauley on Dec. 25, 2012, 10:18 p.m.

The new TX/RX blog site uses WMD editor, a what-you-see-is-what-you-mean markdown editor. You can use this to add any image, but we have our own image library that we want to pull in images from (so that we can re-use photos elsewhere on the site, coming soon!), so we ...

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Portal Christmas

by rtavk3 on Dec. 17, 2012, noon

Christmas just isnt the same without bending the rules of spacetime. So we whipped up a couple portals and through the tree through it. All the ornaments were custom cut on the Laser cutter as part of our ornament build day and yes that is a Hyrul Crest as the ...

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