Success Stories
USS Midway Museum Restoration Project, San Diego, Ca
FIRST Robotics: Team 211 “The MAK Team
University of Akron - Lunar Construction Robot
Cornell University Formula Racing
USS Midway Museum "SINS Room" Restoration Project, San Diego, Ca
Work is underway to revive this vessel's retired electronics system. This portion
of the project will involve 23 Sunstone PCBs on board this historical aircraft carrier!
This is a work in progress, please watch for updates on remaking history here!
USS Midway Restoring History
Team 211 “The MAK Team” of FIRST Robotics
Rochester NY
I am an Engineer at Kodak who works with the Marshall High School Robotics team. We
build and design design robots to compete in yearly competitions. I coordinate
the team which creates the electrical system of the robot. My students are
all inner city kids with usually no electronics background. I typically purchase
(often with my own money) electronics projects for the students to assemble to learn
about soldering and electronics. This year I decided to build my own.
This is why I am coming to you.
To read the entire inspirational
MAK Team story now
University of
Akron - Lunar Construction Robot
The engineering team at the University of Akron, won first place in a competition
to create a robot that can construct, what could possibly become, the foundation
for Humanity’s roots on the Moon. This construction robot will locate, excavate
and seal lava tubes that will be used to provide heat for the first human inhabitations.
The overarching design principal for the competition is the simplification of the
robot and reduce the overall size, weight and cost. The team from the University
of Akron won this competition with its elegantly simple robot prototype and Sunstone
is honored to be a part of their success.
Read the University
of Akron Success Story
"My
name is Simon Wong and I am contacting you from Cornell Racing. I am the electronics
subteam leader...
A Junior undergraduate is going to be building a dashboard for our 2007
car complete with an LCD display and some control interface. Furthermore, a Master's
of Engineering student is designing our new data acquisition system to collect information
from sensors as well as the CAN network. Finally, a Sophomore might get the chance
to see some design experience by designing a voltage subtractor as an accessory
to the data acquisition system to log data where we are interested in only the difference
between two sensor values.
Even though Cornell Racing is one project team, we offer learning opportunities
at many different experience levels for PCB design.
Furthermore, these projects must interface together as part of a complete
system. This opportunity is really only made possible by the generous support of
Sunstone Circuits. Once again, thank you so much for your continued support of Cornell
Racing. Please let me know what you think about our 2006 story and if there is anymore
information you would like to know about us." - Simon Wong, Cornell Racing
2006 Cornell FSAE
Success Story
