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Re: LEGO RCX Skydivers
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 5 Nov 1999 15:58:45 GMT
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Jean auBois <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
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> One might recall the old engineering class competition (MIT? somewhere
> else?) that involves dropping a protected egg some distance onto a hard
> surface or the one where the egg is catapulted.
A bit off topic, but the tie-in is there: The class you speak of is "270"
(course number at MIT) a Mechanical Engineering class, the creation of Prof.
Woody Flowers, and it directly inspired "6.270" which is the annual
intersession LEGO robotics competition, from which the RCX owes a great
deal. The egg was just one of many things done, which changes every year.
Incidentally, Woody Flowers is an advisor to the FIRST Lego League, the
"pure MINDSTORMS" competition now going on. It has the same principle: a
fixed set of parts, a tournament competition to decide who is the best, and
lots of hands-on learning that cannot be gained by reading or sitting in
lecture.
I think Woody would enjoy the idea of dropping an RCX. Talk about things
going in circles!
--Jack Gregory
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| (...) One might recall the old engineering class competition (MIT? somewhere else?) that involves dropping a protected egg some distance onto a hard surface or the one where the egg is catapulted. In any case, if one presumed that an egg was at (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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