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I'm helping a professor I work for develop a robotics course for the fall (a college level course for upperclass students and a handful of graduate students). We like LEGOs a lot and are planning on having students construct LEGO/HandyBoard robots (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Technic Sets to Use for Educational Kits
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My .02 worth: I don't recommend 8446. Why? There is no power source, therefore the projects can't 'do' anything. 8462 has full pneumatics: 2 tanks, 3 switches, 2 pistons, 1 pump. Pneumatics have been used to create non-electrically powered movement. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hmmm, don't forget to add the cost of the HandyBoard in there. Now you're looking at the cost of a RIS plus a any one of the kits Wes mentioned. There is a little known kit called 89609 from Dacta/Pitsco called Technology Resource Set with (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) looking (...) What I meant was that we have several hundred dollars per kit soley to buy LEGO parts, above and beyond money spent on the HandyBoard (the microcontroller we're going to use), sensors (from DigiKey & Jameco), and LEGO motors (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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Ah, ok, now we've got a better idea of the requirements and budget. I thought you were going to use either LEGO or handyboard for controlling the robot. Throw out my ideas about programmable LEGo since you are using the handyboard. You should (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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