Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 14:26 by TheMadScientist
Society Meeting Friday 5th Feb in C11 (Project Lab)
Posted Tue, 12/15/2009 - 16:46 by TheMadScientist
A short bulletin highlighting the soceity has been published in the December Issue of the Alumni Association e-zine E:Connect.
http://www.rgu.ac.uk/files/EConnect%20December%202009.htm
Posted Fri, 12/11/2009 - 22:16 by TheMadScientist
Following on from the Schools annual Christmas Lecture 11:00 to 15:30. The society partook in a short 1.5 hour gaming session of Unreal Tournament, about half a dozen members of staff also participated in the fun.
Following on from this the society members headed to Rileys Pool hall for a 4.5 hour session of Pool.
All in all, this has been a very active day for the soceity, initially with some members meeting up at 08:30 and finally parting ways at 21:30.
Posted Fri, 12/11/2009 - 22:10 by TheMadScientist
Several members of the society were present to help out with the Schools annual Christmas Lecture.
Given the proximity to Christmas the lecture was titled "Merry Multimedia". The society demonstrated the NXT Robots and how they may be programmed in NXC. Approximately 200 secondary school students from the surrounding area attended the event.
Posted Fri, 11/20/2009 - 21:07 by TheMadScientist
CTRL Byte's weekly meeting lasted for 2 hours today, running from 12:00 to 14:00. This included an informal introductory lecture on NXC Programming. The lecture comprised of the system setup for the Bricx CC IDE, USB communications with the NXT and the development of some initial NXC applications.
Following the meeting a 4.5 hour Unreal Tournament commenced. The tournament finally came to an end at 18:30 in the evening. For a period during the session the society members in C11 did battle with a number of other computing students located in C26.
Posted Sat, 11/14/2009 - 12:28 by TheMadScientist
After the societies most recent weekly meeting (Friday 13th November 2009). A 3 hour gaming session of Unreal Tournament was held. A number of individual and team based games were played.
A number of staff from the School of Computing also joined in the fun.
Posted Sat, 11/14/2009 - 12:27 by TheMadScientist
Several members of the society were involved at the Open Day held 7th November 2009 (http://www.comp.rgu.ac.uk/openday). A number of Lego NXT Robots were on display to the public.
Posted Sat, 11/14/2009 - 12:00 by TheMadScientist
A number of members of CTRL Byte hit the basketball court at Torry Sports Centre in the evening of Friday 6th Nov 2009.
Posted Sat, 11/14/2009 - 11:44 by TheMadScientist
5th November 2009, CTRL Byte receives delivery of two Lego NXT 2.0 robots. They are pictured here on either side of the Lego NXT Alpha Rex. The first robots to be built were an Explorer Robot that can find its way around objects and the Shooterbot that locks on to targets and shoots.
Posted Sat, 11/14/2009 - 11:40 by TheMadScientist
After a 1.5 hour meeting on Friday 30th October 2009 all the major details about the Computer Society have been ironed out.
After coming up with a few dozen possible names for the society, it was finally decided by means of a vote that the name should be (CTRL Byte).
The key people to make up the society were also elected consisting of President, 2 Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary and Public Relations Officer.
