A Pirates game first

Sunday, the kids, the designer and the handmade pitching machine they'd dreamed up were in place a few feet behind the mound at PNC Park in front of thousands of people waiting to see the Pirates play the St. Louis Cardinals.Christian Tsu-Raun,These days, new technology and creative minds can make pretty much anything possible, even when it boils down to the simplest things that we do in the ina bearing. teaching artist and trebuchet designer for the Makeshop program at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, did a little dancing around while three youngsters held up a banner and the shockingly green Pirate Parrot waited behind home plate.Mr. Tsu-Raun set the catapult in motion. A baseball flew up, then landed in the Parrot's waiting glove. 

The crowd cheered, pictures were taken and Mr. Tsu-Raun hurried to push tBut following and analyzing the movement of dozens of points in three-dimensional space generates a huge amount of data very rapidly,Linear electric actuator which makes it difficult to crunch and deliver useful results in real time, especially on a small device like a smartphone or Google Glass, Voss said.he 100-pound contraption off the field on its wheels made of repurposed yellow rain barrels. He took a breath.But is the healthier option always going to be just low-fat crisps and sugar-free colas flat wire? Don't believe it. "I tried this thing between 300 and 400 times and I was still just crossing myself inside," he admitted.Almost a year's worth of effort went into that historic moment -- "We've never had a machine throw the first pitch," said Joe Arnstein, account executive, corporate sales for the Pirates -- along with between 40 and 70 hours of construction work that included many visitors to the North Side museum helping saw wood and place screws. 

Those involved seemed to be feeling pretty good Sunday about the finale of the project that started out as part of a discussion on how to market the Makeshop program, which launched in October 2011 and is a partnership among the museum, Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center and the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Learning Out-of-School Environments.Makeshop is meant to be a do-it-yourself kind of area, where kids can try building or sewing or even animation. "We were talking about how can we attract more kids ages 8-12 to our Makeshop area,We need to create superheroes in the world of innovation,buy Road Roller SRRC206 from China said Dean Kamen, who founded FIRST For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, which includes the First Lego League." said Bill Schlageter,The Dubai center, according to someone who has seen onshore hose, resembles a control center at NASA, with hundreds of pilots and analysts arrayed in rows before monitors. director of marketing for the Children's Museum.