Sunday, June 24, 2018  |  3 to 4pm  |  Snacks provided 

Join Texas A&M University for a presentation and demo for their DSTR platform for teaching higher ed robotics.  This unique design will be a great addition as   a platform to any robotics or mechatronics courses and student activities.

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Monday, June 25, 2018  |  11:30am to 1pm  |  Lunch provided

Join Dr. Jon Valvano of University of Texas at Austin for a presentation of the TI Robotics System Learning Kit.  This new solution kit from Texas Instruments provides a comprehensive and open curriculum for educators to teach one and two semester courses around the themes of robotics, mechatronics, and systems learning.  The kit provides educators with a crucial starting point to enable their own class customization in efforts to excite and retain engineering students early in their academic career.

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Monday, June 25, 2018  |  1:30 to 3pm  |  Snacks provided

Come and see the engineering inside TI-Innovator Rover^TM  - the educational robotics vehicle that helps students to explore topics in math, science, engineering and technology using coding.  We will do hands-on activities with Rover and explore the sub-systems - encoders, gyroscope, motor driver, sensors - that keep Rover rolling.  We will also discuss the engineering decisions and the hardware/software interactions that were part of the design process.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2018  |  8 to 9:30am  |  Breakfast provided

BeagleBone® Blue is a complete, Linux-enabled robotics computer, This hands-on workshop will get you up and running in 15 mins with BeagleBone Blue’s robotics-oriented peripherals making building mobile robots quick and affordable.  Join Professor Yoder and Franklin Cooper to get a first look at this platform rich with capability for mechatronics and robotics, to fit your curriculum. Leave with the ability to integrate BeagleBone® Blue  into courses, projects and on-campus innovation labs, complementing the TI LaunchPad development kits.  

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Tuesday, June 26, 2018  |  1:30 to 3pm  |  Snacks provided

Join Texas Instruments for a look at how to implement the low cost and flexible TI LaunchPad development kits into embedded systems courses.  TI and academic partners provide many resources to teach microprocessor concepts at a level appropriate for university students.  Students will get hands on with industry tools while also having the flexibility to do their hardware labs on their own time and locations of choice.  The MSP432 provides students with a very solid, popular and reliable ARM Cortex-M4 architecture to build their skills covering how level concepts or more advanced system level concepts.

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