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Joshua Whitman
Joshua Whitman is a home-schooled eighth-grader from Wichita, KS. He has been building with LEGO bricks for as long as he can remember. He received his first MINDSTORMS RCX kit at ...view moreJoshua Whitman is a home-schooled eighth-grader from Wichita, KS. He has been building with LEGO bricks for as long as he can remember. He received his first MINDSTORMS RCX kit at age eight. He has participated in numerous robotics groups, clubs, and classes. He competed on a team in WSU’s MINDSTORMS Robotics Challenge for two years. His team won the first-place trophy both times. As an experienced member of the team, he had to learn how to help teach the newer kids about MINDSTORMS. He was a part of the first winning team to use an NXT to compete in the challenge.
His favorite (and most impressive) creation is a robot that can actually lock and unlock his room through a rotation sensor combination lock. The system is surprisingly secure, and 99.9 percent foolproof. He loves programming more than anything else in robotics. His current project involves using the NXT display as a screen for simple videogames like Pong.view less