With this simple 13-lines program, the robot will measure the length of an arbitrarily complicated wall: Author: NCLab Team, for tomorrow’s NCLab workshop at Virginia City Middle School.
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3D Clock Model
This beautiful 3D model of a clock was created by Eric Duong (Dilworth MS, Reno, NV). If you want to look at the example in more detail, or use it as a basis for your own 3D design, download it from NCLab’s public database. The database is accessible through the File manager’s File menu. In
Karel Fans, We Dare You!
Karel is hunting for the legendary Treasure of the Pharaoh’s. He is almost there – one last deadly trap awaits him! He stands in complete darkness, at the cross-section of four tunnels. He is facing a random direction – either North, West, South or East. He knows that the West tunnel leads to the treasure
NCLab 0.9.3 Released
NCLab was just updated! Your may experience temporary problems caused by your browser’s cache. Please empty your browser’s cache (“clear browsing data”) or press F5 several times. After that, NCLab should behave normally. New Features and Improvements – Newly created accounts require email activation. – File system revamped. It is now more stable and faster. – Available
NCLab Summer Camp 2013
NEW: The Summer Camp is just days away. Please read updated information here. On August 7 and 8, 2013 we will welcome 50 K-12 students to UNR College of Science for the 2013 NCLab Programming and 3D CAD Design Summer Camp. The Summer Camp is open to all K-12 students and homeschoolers. Complete beginners as
First K-12 School Outside Nevada Partners with NCLab!
Westminster Schools of Augusta (GA) is a private institution with rich tradition of excellence in academics and arts. Computer Science teacher Craig Ham at WSA says “I’ve been very impressed with what I saw in NCLab and know its been promoted by the CSTA. We want to use NCLab primarily for 3D design and introductory
NCLab Donates Chromebooks to Dilworth STEM Academy in Reno
The Dilworth STEM Academy middle school in Reno was one of the first K-12 schools to partner with the NCLab project. There are more students that want to use NCLab than computers available. Therefore we decided to donate some Samsung Chromebooks to the school. Supporting K-12 schools that use NCLab, as well as open source
WPCSD partnership
We are excited to announce that the White Pine County School District (WPCSD) in Nevada is the first school district to become an official partner of the NCLab project! NCLab has openings for five partner schools in every U.S. state.
NCLab’s LaTeX module supports Beamer presentations!
The Beamer package is a popular tool for students, scientists, and engineers who like LaTeX to prepare their presentations in PDF format. Beamer is a free, open source alternative to PowerPoint that is easy to get used to because of many predefined styles and cool features. Currently, most people are still presenting from their own
NCLab is moving to Digital Ocean on Feb 26
To sustain the project growth, we need to expand the underlying cloud computing platform. In the night of Tuesday Feb 26, NCLab will be moved from Linode to a new provider, DigitalOcean, who offers more powerful hardware at lower cost. This will cause a one hour interruption of service. We will notify individually all users