UPDATE: Success! Phoenix has landed.
PBS TV has an hour long special on the Phoenix Mars Mission tonite Thur May 22 10PM EDT. It lands on Mars this coming Sunday, May 25, 7:53PM EDT (23:53:GMT).
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Official Team FREDNET
It is finally official: Team FREDNET is an Officially Registered Competitor for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. We participated in the Google/X PRIZE Foundation Announcement Event on Thursday, February 21, 2008, along with several other newly announced teams. I'll post some more about this event soon, right now I must get back to answering several hundred emails I've received from our Team Members, the press, friends, family, and well-wishers. For those who don't already know (in the press and otherwise) I am located near Silicon Valley in California, Rich Core is in Northern Michigan, and Dan Smith is somewhere in Colorado, near mountains. We have major working Group Leaders in Denmark (Alexandru Csete), US-Georgia (Robert Starr), Michigan (Kevin Boyd), California (Chris Clabaugh), and Australia (Andrew Burns, Ryan Weed).
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Team FREDNET at Control Engineering Magazine
We have a friend blogger at Control Engineering magazine...
see it here...
see it here...
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Team FREDNET In The News!
Friday, December 28, 2007.
This morning, CNBC featured Fred Bourgeois of Team FREDNET, reporting on one of the newest members of the Google Lunar X Prize challenge. Fred Bourgeois and his team of engineers demonstrated remote control of their prototype rover vehicle. The team gave CNBC reporter Jane Wells the opportunity to control the robot from a laptop in San Jose, CA. The rover itself meanwhile negotiated a simulated lunar landscape in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The brief exhibition proved the feasibility of a remotely controlled vehicle across thousands of miles.
This sampling of upcoming developments demonstrated that Team FREDNET moves with great purpose toward the Lunar X Prize.
Related Information:
CNBC Television Report:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=616611054
CNBC's Jane Wells' Article:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/22421401
Rover Web Site and News Story:
http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/robot_journal2.cgi/2007/12/28#135
This morning, CNBC featured Fred Bourgeois of Team FREDNET, reporting on one of the newest members of the Google Lunar X Prize challenge. Fred Bourgeois and his team of engineers demonstrated remote control of their prototype rover vehicle. The team gave CNBC reporter Jane Wells the opportunity to control the robot from a laptop in San Jose, CA. The rover itself meanwhile negotiated a simulated lunar landscape in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The brief exhibition proved the feasibility of a remotely controlled vehicle across thousands of miles.
This sampling of upcoming developments demonstrated that Team FREDNET moves with great purpose toward the Lunar X Prize.
Related Information:
CNBC Television Report:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=616611054
CNBC's Jane Wells' Article:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/22421401
Rover Web Site and News Story:
http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/robot_journal2.cgi/2007/12/28#135
Friday, December 7, 2007
Webmaster Needed
Calling all WebMasters....
Team FREDNET is searching for a webmaster. We need someone familiar with web technologies, html, shtml, javascript, java, cgi, css, layout, and design who is willing to join our team as the principal designer and maintainer of all the content on all of the Team FREDNET web sites. Space enthusiasts are especially welcome and called to participate! This is an Open Source project.
If you are interested, please leave a comment here along with your contact details. (Email addresses should be in a robot-proofed format, and will be deleted after we have read them.)
Team FREDNET is searching for a webmaster. We need someone familiar with web technologies, html, shtml, javascript, java, cgi, css, layout, and design who is willing to join our team as the principal designer and maintainer of all the content on all of the Team FREDNET web sites. Space enthusiasts are especially welcome and called to participate! This is an Open Source project.
If you are interested, please leave a comment here along with your contact details. (Email addresses should be in a robot-proofed format, and will be deleted after we have read them.)
Kevin Alexander Boyd joins the Team
Kevin Alexander Boyd of the University of Michigan has joined Team FREDNET!
We are excited to have Kevin participate in our first prototype robotics development.
We are excited to have Kevin participate in our first prototype robotics development.
The Team FREDNET Forum Is Live
The Forum is now live and ready for posting.
I am looking for a better faster method of deleting off topic users from posting to and joining the forum. Suggestions are welcome, please leave them as comments to this post.
I am looking for a better faster method of deleting off topic users from posting to and joining the forum. Suggestions are welcome, please leave them as comments to this post.
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