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As part of a Widening Participation project, the UK Open University have produced a 10 week/10 hr per week distance education undergraduate short course on Robotics and the Meaning of Life: (URL) and follow the link for T184: Robotics and the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Robots Competition
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Hi everybody, Yesterday (27/01/04) there was a Robots Competition for junior high at Haifa. The task of the robot was to roll a U turn and then blow up a ballon. Here are some pictures I took of the robots and the competitors: (URL) (press the (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.events, FTX)
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| | WANTED: LEGO Mindstorms Educators
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WANTED: Lego Mindstorms Educators Are you an educator using Lego Mindstorms Robotics? Would you like to participate in a global online pilot project using Lego Mindstorms? Wichita State University’s (WSU) College of Education Robotics Team is (...) (23 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.edu)
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| | My students' creation
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I posted this in the main Robotics newsgroup but forgot to post it here, where it's actually more appropriate. Here's the link to the post: (URL) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Lego Mindstorms Mars Rover Robotics Camp
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(...) Tonya, Did you know that Lego is assisting with the www.redrovergoestomars.org website? Lego ran the competition to name MER-1 and MER-2 as "Spirit" and "Opportunity". If you go to the planetary society's website, and look at archives (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Lego Mindstorms Mars Rover Robotics Camp
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I just finished teaching a robotics course for elementary and middle school teachers on how to incorporate lego, robotics, and MLCAD into their classrooms. During one week of the course teachers were paired up with small groups of 4th-8th grade (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Robolab upgrade to 2.5.3 and other things
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(...) Unfortunately the Service Pack 1 does not seem to work properly to upgrade from 2.5 to 2.5.2. The best way is to get a copy of the current Robolab ver 2.5.2 which is called "ROBOLAB with Training Missions" from your local LEGO distributor. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Zooming in robolab, printing in RCX
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Is there any way to zoom into the icons in robolab, they are a bit tiny and I wanted to know if I could make them look bigger so its easier to see. Also does the RCX Code (or RIS program that comes with the mindstorms kit) have the capability to (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-03, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.faq, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | FLL training manual
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I am planning on using Dave Hylands technical training/coaching manual to prepare my group for the FLL competition. I looked up the Minnesots FLL survey results and noticed that the feedback was rather neutral on the materail. Why is that? Is it to (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Robolab upgrade to 2.5.3 and other things
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(...) Hallo Bill, I've Robolab 2.5. May you tell me where I can download the Service_Pack to upgrading from 2.5 to 2.5.2 ? Unfortunately the italian Dacta distributor have not. Thank you in advance. Alfio Scaletta from Italy (23 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Robolab upgrade to 2.5.3 and other things
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Hello All, There is a patch of Robolab to 2.5.3. Is called Service_Pack12.1 It is around 4.2 mg in size Follow this URL: (URL) is also a list of bug fixes including; one specific problem that made me consider death on a weekend six months ago. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Lego or Biscuit pc/Linux (for path following robot)
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Hello all, I have to build a robot for my thesis projet that will be able to follow a line and inetrpret some graphical commands on the line (like left triangle turn left, big circle wait 10 secs etc) I was planning on modifying my remote controlled (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | New robotics book by Eric Wang
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New book "Engineering with LEGO Bricks and RoboLab" by Eric Wang. See (URL) . Sample at (URL) More info at (URL) . (23 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Feature on NPR
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That title should have been Mindstorms Feature....sheesh! (23 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Robotics Educator CD by Carnegie Mellon
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(...) I agree with you Miles. That's a lot of money. The product appears to be targeted towards teachers who probably will have to convince administrators to buy it. It also appears to have a 'one classroom' license as I recall. So who is the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Robotics Educator CD by Carnegie Mellon
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What do you know about the new Robotics Educator CD-ROM by the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy? For more information you can look at (URL) then Robotics Educator CD-ROM. If you do the On-line Preview, then set your display to 1024 x 768. (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Old LEGO Daca stuff in your closet?
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We have a bunch of kids in our school who have been having a great time building stuff with two old LEGO Dacta (PC Controlled, wired) set of parts. Many of them are 1st to 3rd grade, and usually don't get to do our Mindstorms LEGO projects yet. But (...) (24 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.dacta, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | New Mindstorms Book available
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The long awaited LEGO Mindstorms Interfacing book written by yours truly is out. I've just received my 10 copies from McGraw-Hill. This book should be a welcome addition to the other Mindstorms books sitting on your robotic's bookshelf. The book's (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: New Mindstorms Book
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Sounds like an excellent book. I'll be looking forward to the release. I'm teaching several Robotics courses for educators and the content of this book sounds very helpful. Tonya (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Professor Chris Rogers Visits Australia
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"Professor Rogers is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering who is currently on a Fulbright fellowship in New Zealand. He heads the LEGO Design and Programming System Project at Tufts University in Boston USA, where the ROBOLAB software (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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