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Robot Garden YouTube gets a fresh look

Jan

8

2018

Of course you know Robot Garden DOES VIDEO! But did you know we’ve given our YouTube channel a fresh look? We want to make our YouTube channel the top, best, most amazing and coolest in 2018. You can help!

Love is in the air, Makers!

Feb

8

2017

Love is in the air, Makers! Let’s laser cut some cards for our beloved valentines and add a personal touch. Many designs to try out. Price of laser cutting session: Robot Garden members : $5 (material cost) Non-Robot Garden members: $15 (non-member fee + material cost)

Team Robot Garden enters Victoria in RoboMagellan Contest

Jan

14

2017

On January 07, 2017 we became Team Robot Garden. We named our autonomous robot Victoria after the only one of Magellan’s ships to complete the circumnavigation. It doesn’t hurt that Victoria is the Latin word for ‘victory’ or ‘conquer’. Victoria will compete in the outdoor RoboMagellan contest at RoboGames April 21-23, 2017. The robot must find a traffic cone autonomously ...

Robot Garden in Mendocino

Nov

28

2016

image by Miguel Vieira, Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document according to the terms in Creative Commons License, Attribution 2.0. The full text of this license may be found here: CC by 2.0 Robot Garden is growing! Mendocino is a coastal town in Northern California. Our dynamic duo from the Garden has been giving ...

Robot Garden at LVEF Walk for Education

Oct

2

2016

The Mayor of Livermore dropped by to say hi to the volunteers in Robot Garden’s booth at the LVEF Walk for Education on Saturday 24th of September. LVEF, the Livermore Valley Education Foundation, holds the Walk for Education to raise funds to support local public education. For over two decades LVEF has offered a funding life-line for Livermore public school programs: • ...

Robot Garden Art Wall at Alameda County Fair

Jun

28

2015

Every year, Alameda County Fair has a STEAM weekend “Robots and Rockets”, which is very popular with young and old. Robot Garden helps with the programming and does robot displays, judges robot competitions, gets robot exhibitors along etc. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’ve always got ideas but to get to something that we ...

Ribbon Cutting

Aug

11

2014

Last Tuesday i-GATE had it’s ribbon cutting ceremony with the Mayor of Livermore and Directors of both Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We congratulate i-GATE on this achievement and would like to thank i-GATE and Sandia National Laboratories for their continuing sponsorship.

Opening up Down Town

Jul

10

2014

The paint is drying, the ventilation system has been installed, this Saturday we are opening the doors of Robot Garden down town and we are super excited about it. From now on, our regular open access hours, classes, interest groups etc. will be in the new down town space at 160 S Livermore Ave Livermore, ...

Exciting Calendar of Spring Events

Feb

17

2014

There are a bunch of cool events coming up where the community can show off their cool projects and we can raise awareness about the Maker movement and Robot Garden. If you are interested in building neat things or helping with events, please get in touch.

Join the ROV/AUV Interest Group at the California Academy of Sciences!

Jul

17

2013