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In lugnet.general, Ross Crawford writes:
> Just found the following page. What's NASA doing with Lego??
>
> http://ldaps.ivv.nasa.gov/Workshop/VintageHills/systems.html
They were involved in a NASA program called "Learning Technologies Project
(LTP)" which sponsored 8 or so 3-year website-based projects back in 1996-ish
to come up with education-based sites that taught young students about
engineering and other NASA-related stuff. Our project at the Center for
Engineering Educational Outreach (CEEO) at Tufts University was called LDAPS -
LEGO Design and Programming System. It started out with some graphical
software built with LabVIEW called "LEGO Engineer" for Dacta's RS232 serial
interface box, and spawned into a cooperation with LEGO and ROBOLAB for the
RCX.
This particular workshop that you found (1998-ish?) was the very first teacher
workshop that used the RCX, literally days after the product launch I think,
maybe before. It was also one of the most successful in terms of teacher
enthusiasm. The ski-resort itself was definitely a site to behold. I wish I
took video of it, because the pictures don't do it justice. And the pictures
are mostly after-the-fact... and don't tell the full story of the struggles,
fixes, and general amazing engineering problem solving that went into it. (To
read stories of that nature, you'll have to buy my book, hee hee)
That particular NASA program is over, but the CEEO continues to work with LEGO
on ROBOLAB and does lots of other things with LEGOs in general like summer
robotics camps for kids, etc. and there is a new NASA project for doing
remote-sensing stuff with LEGO in the works.
>
> Enjoy
>
> ROSCO
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