Rossum on Hip2BSquare TV Show

Hip2BSquare featured the Rossum Academy on the 24th of November show. With the producers of the TV show we played around with the idea of creating a robot to place in studio which can be controlled by the viewers from home.

We decided to build the Fischertechnik 3-Axis Robotic Arm controlled by a cell phone and challenge the viewers at home to sms the correct instructions to move a drum on the table in the studio. During the few minutes that the competition ran, the cell phone connected to the arm received almost 600 sms’es from viewers at home.

The purpose of this demonstration was to showcase the new discipline of mobile programming which we are offering at the Academy. This new mobile programming course looks at how to write software in Python for cell phones running the Symbian Operating system. This course will form part of our holiday program at the MTN Sciencentre.