Subject:
|
Re: robotica on TLC
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Fri, 6 Apr 2001 08:04:28 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
4293 times
|
| |
|
|
> Even without that, it helps. My 10 year old son used to tell the kids at
> school that he built Lego robots that could really drive around and do things
> and the other kids would roll their eyes and mouth "Geek...Nerd..." etc. Now
> they are *VERY* interested - I think these various cheesy programs have made
> that change. Not that they learned any science from the show - but maybe
> they now have a little more respect and interest in that kind of thing.
Look into getting your son and yourself involved in the First Lego League.
I judged some competitions last fall and it was a blast. Very worthwhile.
> I'm also a HUGE fan of that other British series "Scrapheap" (known as
> "Junkyard Wars" here in the USA - because...em...well)...a bunch of guys
> are dumped in the middle of a massive junkyard with the task of building
> some maniac machine in 8 hours from only the scrap laying around them.
> Two teams do this - and at the end the contraptions they build compete
> in some way.
I too am a big fan. Though I would prefer it if they weren't quite so
obvious about seeding the junkyard with "really good junk". I've never seen
so many oil drums in such pristine condition. And the proportion of working
automobile engines vs derelicts is a tad high to be believed.
> That series really *does* push the science - quite a bit of the
> show is taken up with discussing the engineering merits of the
> teams approaches and there are little science inserts explaining
> why one method is better than another...cool stuff - by *FAR* my
> (and my son's) favorite TV show.
My 4 year old daughter has the uncanny ability to pick the winning team as
soon as the two designs are presented. I know it's just luck, but it gets
spooky after a while.
|
|
Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: robotica on TLC
|
| (...) I love this show also, they build 'robots' that have human computers, but they could be a robot easily, most of the time with a good enough software package. In the US version, there were brand new engines that had been installed on crashed (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: robotica on TLC
|
| (...) I've been trying to start up a local Lego robotics group to do something like that - but so far, response from parents in the area has been disappointing. (...) They certainly do seed the junkyard for *some* of the activities - in the rocketry (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: robotica on TLC
|
| (...) I'm also a big fan of Junkyard Wars, they give my Rock Raiders figs someone to emulate. I think most of the seeding is done for safety reasons; I wouldn't want to be anywhere near someone trying to make their own rocket fuels/motors. Also, in (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: robotica on TLC
|
| (...) If you go to the website of the show, they say that *everything* in the junkyard is seeded. Everything that's there was put there by the show's producers. Not that it really makes the show less enjoyable. Although for some strange reason a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: robotica on TLC
|
| (...) Even without that, it helps. My 10 year old son used to tell the kids at school that he built Lego robots that could really drive around and do things and the other kids would roll their eyes and mouth "Geek...Nerd..." etc. Now they are *VERY* (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
|
38 Messages in This Thread:
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
