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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 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Thoughts on Turning —The Clark Family
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Thoughts on Turning —Nick Taylor
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| | | | Jim - - - Perspective #1: As a teaching/learning tool the HB is a "real-life" micro- controller that serves as a great intro to programming embedded applications. It was designed to do just that at M.I.T. Perspective #2: As a toy for the robotics (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Thoughts on Turning —Mark Tarrabain
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| | | | (...) Perspective #1 makes the HB great for programmers. Perspective #2 makes the HB great for robotics hobbyists. Unfortunately, as I mentioned in another thread, the HB is totally unsuitable for people who just want to play around with LEGO while (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Thoughts on Turning —Nick Taylor
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| | | | Mark - - - I do not understand why you want to get into a pissing contest about using the HandyBoard with LEGO robots. My first (and only) posting to you was an honest attempt to help you, and I apologized when I realised that it wasn't HB (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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