Tetrix Meets Steel Participants in this week's FIRST World Championships in St. Louis can stop by the National Instruments booth in the FRC pits for some fun and games. Our very own Project S.T.E.E.L. (Superior TETRIX Engineering Enabled by LabVIEW) will be making its debut! Here's how it works: The object of the game is to drive the Ranger Bot around a track as quickly and accurately...

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Awesome WeDo Extension Packs from LEGO Education We here at Enable love to see products and resources that bring new people to robotics. We also love that LEGO Education is putting out products to get young kids excited about robotics and give educators who may shy away from incorporating robotics in the in the classroom, a fun and meaningful way to do it.  Using robotics in new and creative ways at the same time...

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Introducing Phil R. Bot "According to Phil: A Young Thinker's Guide to Robots" is in production and due out later this year. The book features an endearing mechanical narrator who takes budding engineers and their parents through the history, uses, and inner workings of our automated friends. Many thanks to Mark Hughes, our resident artist, for making Phil so darned cute. Until his debut,...

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Enable President Ben Zimmer interviews with Michael Aivaliotis of  VI Shots Michael and Ben discuss how Ben started using LabVIEW and how he’s built a growing business around providing training materials. Ben also talks about his interesting journey as a mentor to FIRST robotics teams and how that has crossed paths with his business interests. There's also some...

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Enable’s New Crib It’s official: Enable TC has relocated to a bigger, badder office. ;) The old office was getting kind of tight. Despite the fact that Zaid and Morteza looked cozy being seated so closely together, the frequency of awkward collisions increased as our team grew in numbers. So we threw our TETRIX, Mindstorms and LEGO parts in boxes and drove to our new crib only a few...

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