Troy Mock

Troy's Articles

Opinion: Why Combat Robots?
May 2015
For a third of my life, I've been a competitor and champion in the world of combat robotics.

The Evolution of Attitude
May 2014
My venture into the three pound Beetleweight class began in 2009 when I was in the eighth grade.

A Robotics Infrastructure for the Experimenter: Hardware Essentials
I’m often asked for a shopping list for the tools and technologies essential to a high school level robotics program. It’s a tough question because, well, it depends. It depends on the type of robot we’re talking about: crawler, quadcopter, or arm, for example. It also depends on whether the goal is to learn programming techniques, hardware design and construction, or a combination of the two.