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Re: Request for designs
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 3 Jun 2002 05:11:02 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net&ihatespam&>
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Dave Baum wrote:
> Many of the others had never played with Technic or Mindstorms before.
> We spent over an hour on gearing up and gearing down. Remember that
> these people need help with the basics (difference between black and
> grey pegs, how to reinforce structures with vertical beams, etc). If
> you have time (or space if it is printed materials) at the end to show
> some examples of the far-out stuff, then great. But I can't overstate
> the importance of spending a lot of time on the really simple stuff that
> we tend to take for granted.
That's true - I hadn't appreciated the level these people were at.
In that case may I strongly recommend a classic: "The Art of Lego Design"
by Fred Martin.
You can find it in several places:
http://fredm.www.media.mit.edu/people/fredm/papers/artoflego/cliche.html
...you could perhaps get these people to read it before your first class
because it covers a lot of that early stuff in a condensed, concise way.
Some of the items are a little outdated for recent Mindstorms parts.
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