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RE: Robotic kits for schools
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Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:30:13 GMT
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And don't forget to buy Ben's book "Creative Projects with Lego Mindstorms."
I am working my way through this text now and it is an excellent resource
for not only lego design but pedagogy as well. I am considering adopting it
for my College level Product Design course. We use RoboLAB and the Team
Challenge Kits (From Pitsco/LEGO/Dacta) in our college curriculum and I am
very pleased. I also understand that the next version 2.5 will integrate
Vision Command and some other wonderful features. I can't wait to get my
hands on it. You can see how we use RoboLAB in our curriculum at our web
site http://faculty.ivy.tec.in.us/~scombs/robotics/
Steven B. Combs, MS, CIT
Associate Professor - Instructional Technologist
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
3501 First Avenue
Evansville, IN 47710
812.429.1476
mailto:scombs@ivy.tec.in.us
http://faculty.ivy.tec.in.us/~scombs
-----Original Message-----
From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com]On Behalf Of
Ben Erwin
Sent: Sunday, 15 April 2001 7:56 PM
To: lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com
Subject: Re: Robotic kits for schools
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 multiple timers, use non-LEGO DCP sensors, etc. then
ROBOLAB
is a must because the RIS software can't do any of this.
TO BUY:
http://www.pldstore.com/ in the U.S.
http://www.lego.com/dacta/addresses/wheretobuy.asp for other countries
Example projects:
http://www.weston.org/Schools/teched/middleschool/berwin/
http://ldaps.ivv.nasa.gov/Curriculum/index.html
In lugnet.robotics, Bill Langevin <commtech@idirect.com> writes:
> 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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