Here are a couple of articles about a smaller version created by a group of Mechanical Engineering students here at Purdue. David Hoff, one of the members, is an alumni of Purdue FIRST, a group of Purdue students who help mentor FIRST teams in the area (FRC teams 461, 1646, and 1747 and numerous FLL teams throughout the local area).
http://www.theindychannel.com/weathe...65/detail.html
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/...ears.snow.wrtv