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Re: Thoughts on Turning
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Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:06:51 GMT
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The Clark Family <clark@bess.SAYNOTOSPAMnet>
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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
Nick Taylor wrote:
> 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.
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> 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
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> RCX-CC -->
> http://www.cs.uu.nl/~markov/lego/
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> HandyBoard -->
> http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/index.html
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> Hope this helps.
> - - - Nick - - -
> The Clark Family wrote:
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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 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
> >
> > alex wetmore wrote:
> >
> > > 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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| 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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| 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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