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Robotic kits for schools
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:03:40 GMT
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Bill Langevin <commtech@IHATESPAMidirect.com>
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I teach a grade 10 design and technology class and have an opportunity to
acquire some
funds for robotic kits, I've heard of Lego mindstorms and some of our high
schools are using
kits which I think are called Techniques?
Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated
Thanks Bill
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) Yes - Technic's. There are two Lego Mindstorms sets to consider: The Robotics Invention Systems (RIS) cost about $200 each and contain a ton of Lego Technics parts, a light sensor, to 'bump sensors' (switched) and two motors. They also contain (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Robotic kits for schools
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| (...) Visit (URL) sell a wide range of Dacta, which is the LEGO educational product line. Dacta is set up to be used in classroom groups, and includes hardware common to the Mindstorms and Technic product lines. (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I think that money would be well spent on some Dacta kits. The local college has a competition on Friday using those kits, the middle school and high school teams really seemed to have a good time. (URL) web site isn't updated yet, but i'm sure (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Robotic kits for schools
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| What you want is called "Mindstorms for Schools," a.k.a. ROBOLAB. If you want to do any kind of graphing, data-collection, internet communication, journal writing, web page creation, picture-importing, code-commenting, using variables, using (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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