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In lugnet.general, Ben Erwin writes:
> In lugnet.general, Ross Crawford writes:
> > Just found the following page. What's NASA doing with Lego??
> >
> > http://ldaps.ivv.nasa.gov/Workshop/VintageHills/systems.html
>
> They were involved in a NASA program called "Learning Technologies Project
> (LTP)" which sponsored 8 or so 3-year website-based projects back in 1996-ish
> to come up with education-based sites that taught young students about
> engineering and other NASA-related stuff. Our project at the Center for
> Engineering Educational Outreach (CEEO) at Tufts University was called LDAPS -
> LEGO Design and Programming System. It started out with some graphical
> software built with LabVIEW called "LEGO Engineer" for Dacta's RS232 serial
> interface box, and spawned into a cooperation with LEGO and ROBOLAB for the
> RCX.
>
> This particular workshop that you found (1998-ish?) was the very first teacher
> workshop that used the RCX, literally days after the product launch I think,
> maybe before. It was also one of the most successful in terms of teacher
> enthusiasm. The ski-resort itself was definitely a site to behold. I wish I
> took video of it, because the pictures don't do it justice. And the pictures
> are mostly after-the-fact... and don't tell the full story of the struggles,
> fixes, and general amazing engineering problem solving that went into it. (To
> read stories of that nature, you'll have to buy my book, hee hee)
Thanks for the info! I found quite a bit searching around the site, but it's
always better to get it from the horse's mouth (so to speak).
> That particular NASA program is over, but the CEEO continues to work with LEGO
> on ROBOLAB and does lots of other things with LEGOs in general like summer
> robotics camps for kids, etc. and there is a new NASA project for doing
> remote-sensing stuff with LEGO in the works.
Do you know if there's any links about any of that yet?
ROSCO
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