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Re: Thoughts on Turning
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Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:41:44 GMT
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Nick Taylor <ntaylor@iname.com>
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Jim - - -
We don't home school, but we do home supplement public school with
12-15 hours a week of in-depth study. I started my 10 and 11 year old
boys on MindStorms in November. The older boy had experience with
Logo and QBASIC, the younger had no programming background.
MindStorms has worked well as a starting point for both robotics and
for programming. The older boy quickly moved to using BotCode
which is an easy step up from MindStorms. The less experienced kid
will be ready for BotCode soon.
When they become proficient with BotCode I plan on moving them
to NQC running under RCX Command Center. This will introduce
them to writing macros and will serve as an intro to using C.
If they both continue to show an interest in robotics and programming,
the next step will be to using a HandyBoard (68HC11) and Interactive
C. This is a good stepping stone for starting to use assembly
language on the 68HC11.
Here are the links:
BotCode -->
http://www.desktopmusic.com/botcode.htm
RCX-CC -->
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~markov/lego/
HandyBoard -->
http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/index.html
Hope this helps.
- - - Nick - - -
The Clark Family wrote:
> Alex I read your message and went to your web page and looked at your desigh and
> was wondering if you (or anyone else) can help me with resources for building
> robots for my 16 year old son. We Home school and are about to start using
> mindstorms for a robotics class and I am trying to get as much information and
> projects as possible. Do you program with the Robolab or the Mindstorms software?
> Which do you reccomend for a student who has lots of lego building experience and
> has worked with the Logo programming language.
> Thanks
> Jim Clark
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> alex wetmore wrote:
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> > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Blake Coverett wrote:
> > > Well, enough rambling for now. Any one else using a similar sort of design?
> > > Thoughts on improving this one? Better ways to implement the first two
> > > options? Other completely different ways of handling the steering problem?
> >
> > take a look at http://www.phred.org/~alex/lego. There are two robots
> > there based on an adder/subtractor that uses two differentials. The 2nd
> > design (at the bottom of the page) is much more efficient then the first,
> > so if you build one I'd suggest starting there. There is a website
> > where someone made directions for it using LDraw... I'll find the URL
> > soon (probably within a few hours) and update my page with that.
> >
> > alex
> >
> > --
> > Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| Just out of curiosity what does the HandyBoard do for you. Also do you have any experience with the Robolab software? Thanks for the Info Jim Clark (...) This message was sent from Bess.Net, a filtered Internet Access Provider for children and (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Alex I read your message and went to your web page and looked at your desigh and was wondering if you (or anyone else) can help me with resources for building robots for my 16 year old son. We Home school and are about to start using mindstorms for (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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