RSU 9 ‘Blue Crew’ robotics team to compete in New England Championship

FARMINGTON – At the RSU 9 Board of Directors meeting on Wednesday night, Richard Wilde, instructor of computer technology at the Foster Career and Technical Education Center at Mt. Blue Campus, presented a robot named R2-Blue2, which is a replica of the robot R2-D2 from the film series Star Wars. The robot was created by the Blue Crew, the robotics team at the Mt. Blue High School.     The robot was built using large format 3-D printers, and the body is composed of three separate pieces. The students designed a circuit using two AC relays, and once the robotRead More