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| | | I'm currently teaching a Basic Programming and Pre-Robotics class for Saturday Academy. I've been using the RCX since it's invention. Today, I took a fully built NXT Tribot to class. First, I showed the class how to program a simple "go forward for (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Edwin Pilobello
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| | | | I'll use this space as my blog on my initial classroom experience with the NXT. Today, I had three pairs of boys (ages 10-11), building the arm, scorpion and biped. They had three hours from openning the boxes. Two teams (scorpion and biped) got to (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Brian Davis
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| | | | | (...) Huh. I always counted holes/studs, as most LEGO instructions are not at "true scale", are they? (...) Well, one nice thing about the content of the Mindstorms software is an *awful* lot of it is stored where you can get to it. For instance, (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Chris Magno
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| | | | | | (...) a lot (if not all) of the technic instructions list the axles, ruberbands and beams in a small bubble on the page or at the front of the book with a 1:1 picture. Chris (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Edwin Pilobello
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| | | | | (...) Another 3 hours and "Spike" is complete. "AlphaRex" and "RoboArm T56" had to be torn apart and rebuilt when later modules showed there was something wrong with the base. Both are about halfway done. The AlphaRex team was quite frustrated as (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Edwin Pilobello
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| | | | | | Another new week and a fresh batch of 9 kids in a Lego Team Challenge class. This class is setup to help individuals take on a First Lego League challenge. Starting from scratch, each student (ages 9 - 13) built a model of their choice. No one (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Edwin Pilobello
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| | | | | | (...) A team building AlphaRex had torn down and rebuilt the right leg module twice. Finally, they asked me where they could have gone wrong. Twice now, the leg they built looked like the exact opposite of the finished module on the screen. Why had (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Edwin Pilobello
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| | | | | | At first I thought each student ought to have the experience of building each of the four models. It seems that having 9 kids choose one of four models and build it, saved us some time. They simply learned from each other's experience. Now they come (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Tony Naggs
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| | | | | | | In article <J2q8sH.8Mq@lugnet.com>, gypsy_fly <e_pilobello@yahoo.com> wrote (...) I imagine that the building skills are quickly learnt, and that this would be rather laborious. (...) Cool. :-) (...) Excellent. (...) The most common usage is for a (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —John Brost
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| | | | | | | | In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Tony Naggs wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Though I don't know a great deal about the bluetooth part of NXT, I thought I'd respond quash the idea of the NDA being in effect regarding this. That isn't the case (we are still (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Tony Naggs
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| | | | | | | | In article <J2r7BH.31K@lugnet.com>, John Brost <john.brost@gmail.com> wrote (...) Hi John, that's good news. :-) Though it is not clear to me how to control the NXT over Bluetooth at the moment. Hopefully the publication in August of developer (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Matthias Paul Scholz
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| | | | | | | | Tony, (...) Presently, one could use Microsoft's Robotics Studio (see (URL) for instance) or NeXTTool by John Hansen (see (URL) Matthias Paul Scholz (18 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Tony Naggs
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| | | | | | | | Hi Matthias In article <44C61288.5020004@in...ects.com>, Matthias Paul Scholz <matthias.scholz@int...jects.com> wrote (...) a Bluetooth connection, to communicate with the NXT brick. These programs indicate that it is possible, but I have not yet (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Tony Naggs
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| | | | | | In article <J2q8sH.8Mq@lugnet.com>, gypsy_fly <e_pilobello@yahoo.com> wrote (...) As of Friday I have a NXT Educational kit, and the software arrived on Saturday. (...) The NXT User Guide CD that comes with the Educational kit has document (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) I find pins go into holes much easier if initially pushed at a slight angle, not more than about 5°. ROSCO (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | | | | | Re: My First Classroom Use —Edwin Pilobello
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| | | | (...) Thanks. I'll have the kids try the slight tilt this coming week. One kid needing to correct a model, was pulling so hard on a #15 beam, I thought he'd bend it out of shape! (18 years ago, 16-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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