Category: Technical

Life scripted…

Greg Needel Personal, Technical June 14, 2008

So in the last blog post I talked about some of my media endeavors for this summer. Things have taken a development since then. I decided that instead of developing content for many other places online I am going to do my own show. I have started to get the equipment needed (camera, lights, set,
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Instructables are coming

Greg Needel Personal, Technical May 29, 2008

I have been working on a bunch of how to articles for robot design and other, which I feel cover alot of the information which is lost in the folds of the internet (cough cough chiefdelphi cough). I will be doing these in instructables.com format as step by step instructions. Look for them soon. Some
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Newegg is the pits in my book

Greg Needel Personal, Technical May 20, 2008

Tuesday, 20 May 2008 So in response to my twitter post I got many messages about why I will never buy from newegg.com again so here is my story. I have been looking for the past month or so for a new desktop computer. I was looking for an inexpensive quad-core machine mainly for CAD,
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Championship Manipulators Presentation

Greg Needel Technical April 23, 2008

At the FIRST championship I presented a modified version of my manipulators presentation. You can download the presentation here.

About

Greg is the CEO of REV Robotics, an educational robotics company. which focuses on providing affordable solutions for both co-curricular and extra curricular education.

He was previously the Director of the Innovation Gymnasium at the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Greg is a mechanical engineer who earned his degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has built a career in that field, but his enthusiasm for building and tinkering can hardly be captured by that discipline alone. Professionally, Greg has focused on product development and has designed products for globally recognized brands such as DeWALT, Delta Machinery, HEXBUG, and REV Robotics. He has been issued over 60 global patents for his designs and has numerous patents pending.

Outside of work, he spends much of his free time building and creating, and is an active member of the Dallas Maker Space. Designing and building robots are of particular interest and he has built personal projects and machines for competitions such as Battlebots, the DARPA Grand Challenge and Redbull Creation. Greg dedicates much of his time to working on promoting STEM education to high school students through participation FIRST robotics competition.