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Re: Lego Team Challenge 2.5 Activity Pack (Acrobat)
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Wed, 17 Jul 2002 03:10:35 GMT
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Thanks. I might do that. My assessment at this point, is that the Dacta Team Challenge RoboLab 2.5
is pretty close to what would be called a Beta version. That may seem a bit harsh, but I don't think
so. Each kit came with the acrobot activity and subassembly kit. These are both modestly printed
documents. The subassembly booklet is almost worthless. The acrobat activity fails to mention, I
believe, that this booklet is a team challenge. Actually, I think the booklet is more of a rush job.
LabView contains a number of programs for which there are no instructions on robotics assembly. One
respondent told me that a Lego fair (?conference) showed a much more complete kit. I would expand my
previous comment to say that the kits we received were rushed to market. I could go on. I'll just
mention that fortunately my co-instructor and I have sufficient experience with robots, software,
and hardware to make some sort of meaningful summer camp class out of this. Upon further reviewing
the acrobot booklet, I think we can make a little more sense out of it in coming days.
lego-robotics@crynwr.com wrote:
> You might refer this to the TAFFIE robotics mailing list
> (http://archive.jsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/robotics) also; they are mostly
> First LEGO League and BEST coaches who subscribe to that list. I know the
> people who maintain the list (Gary and Susan Frederick) have been running
> Club BOB and Team BOB for a few years.
>
> Liz Bilbro
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> Teacher/Coach
> CyberStorm Robotics Class and FLL Team
> Sports for the Mind for Lubbock Homeschoolers
> http://www.cyberstorm.us/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com]On Behalf Of
> Wayne Watson
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:31 PM
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: Lego Team Challenge 2.5 Activity Pack (Acrobat)
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> We received several Dacta TC RoboLab 2.5 kits for a class we are teaching.
> They include about a 20
> page booklet (copymaster) for constructing an acrobot and writing LabView
> programs for it. I find
> some of the instructions puzzling. For example, on page 5 step 12 says "go
> back to your activity
> Copymaster." Presumably they are talking about the Copymaster booklet
> containing this instruction.
> This makes no sense. Where exactly does one go. The robot looks a bit
> incomplete. It has two touch
> sensors attached to liftarms but no instructions where to attach them to the
> robot. If I skip ahead
> to page 10, I see the same robot. Is the teacher supposed to get creative
> and tell the students to
> put some additional subassembly on the robot to attach the two touch sensors
> stuck on the liftarms?
> --
> Wayne T. Watson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N, 2,701 feet), Nevada
> City, CA
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> "Hell is truth seen too late." -- John Locke
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--
Wayne T. Watson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N, 2,701 feet), Nevada City, CA
"Hell is truth seen too late." -- John Locke
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