Family Farms - Moravian College
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orbispictus<br />
HI, ROBOT<br />
For his SOAR (Student Opportunities for Academic Research) project, Wesley Moser ’08<br />
worked with assistant professor of computer science Ben Coleman to create a robotic<br />
mapmaker. Packed with sensing and computing equipment, the spry little robot can<br />
explore its surroundings and send the data to a computer screen, creating a visual track<br />
of its meanderings. “Getting the robot to tell the computer what it did was the roughest<br />
part,“ he says. Someday a similar model might be used to explore areas too dangerous<br />
for humans to tread. Wesley deliberately used retro parts, including a frame of Lego<br />
blocks, partly in the hope that future versions will be as affordable as they are functional.<br />
Orbis Pictus (The World Illustrated), written by <strong>Moravian</strong> bishop and educator Jan Amos Comenius and published in 1658, was the first illustrated book for children. On this page we celebrate<br />
the ways in which members of the <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> community illuminate the world we live in.<br />
36 MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE FALL 2007
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