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Ingenuity on display at fall Engineering Design Fair at Montana State University

Based on the date, time, longitude and latitude that Gordon Nelson entered into a digital control box, three solar panels rotated and tilted to a position where they would catch the most sun.

“You’ll get 11.5 watts more on average out of these over the course of a day,” Nelson said of the sun-tracking solar panels that he and fellow Montana State University seniors Kristin Summers and Boe Jensen programmed.

Their project was one of many student innovations displayed Thursday at MSU’s Engineering Design Fair in the Strand Union Building.

By AMANDA RICKER Chronicle Staff Writer

Full Story: http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2008/12/12/news/000fair.txt

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Ingenuity on display at fall Engineering Design Fair

By Michael Becker, MSU News Service

Solving a maze takes time and patience, or, if you happen to be a Montana State University computer engineering http://www.coe.montana.edu/ee/ student, you could just build, and program, a robot to do it for you.

That’s what seniors Chris Gibson of Butte and Tim Montague of Bellevue, Wash., did. Both were part of a group that constructed an eight-inch-tall, battery-powered robot that uses onboard sensors to find its way through table-top mazes.

Full Story: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=6635

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