Chapter 6: Look, learn, build, program, and record results
Look, learn, and build:
For many of these sites and builds, you have to give the kids time to look, analyze, learn, build, play, and then attempt programming. Most takes one to two weeks on the average. For the advanced student, it will take 4 hours of build time and 2 hours of programming. Some of these require extra parts with extended kits.
RCX Fetch-bot - Can you figure out how to program this based on seeing how it works?
Ask questions, look for ideas, or find troubleshooting tips:
ask Robohi <--- visit "For Educators" and look up topics (posts). There is more than one page of stuff. Make sure you are registered before trying to post something.
Work ends here ... (Review what was learned. If work was not completed, come back to this project next time.)
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RCX Clock-Look at the build on this. Can you figure out how it's geared and build one? How about programming it?
Ask questions, look for ideas, or find troubleshooting tips:
ask Robohi <--- visit "For Educators" and look up topics (posts). There is more than one page of stuff. Make sure you are registered before trying to post something.
Work ends here ... (Review what was learned. If work was not completed, come back to this project next time.)
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RCX O'Reilly.com - Mr. Knudsen's book, "The Unofficial Guide to LEGO Mindstorm Robots" - This site has 5 different robots you can build. Figure out how it works and try programming it.
Ask questions, look for ideas, or find troubleshooting tips:
ask Robohi <--- visit "For Educators" and look up topics (posts). There is more than one page of stuff. Make sure you are registered before trying to post something.
Work ends here ... (Review what was learned. If work was not completed, come back to this project next time.)
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NXT Advanced building from LEGO.com. Look and learn. Try it and program it.
Ask questions, look for ideas, or find troubleshooting tips:
ask Robohi <--- visit "For Educators" and look up topics (posts). There is more than one page of stuff. Make sure you are registered before trying to post something.
Work ends here ... (Review what was learned. If work was not completed, come back to this project next time.)
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NXT LEGO Mindstorms community. These require extra parts and some patience. These are mostly view, analyze, build, and figure out the programming.
Ask questions, look for ideas, or find troubleshooting tips:
ask Robohi <--- visit "For Educators" and look up topics (posts). There is more than one page of stuff. Make sure you are registered before trying to post something.
Work ends here ... (Review what was learned. If work was not completed, come back to this project next time.)
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From bnxt.com. This is very advanced. These guys took sophisticated mathematical problems and broke them down into a simpler format to create these programs that make the NXT robots do sophisticated things. Using the ultrasonic sensor, they programmed the NXT to scan a radius and map out objects in its scan.
Ask questions, look for ideas, or find troubleshooting tips:
ask Robohi <--- visit "For Educators" and look up topics (posts). There is more than one page of stuff. Make sure you are registered before trying to post something.
Work ends here ... (Review what was learned. If work was not completed, come back to this project next time.)
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marioferrari.org Master site for LEGO robotics. What you see on this site will blow you away. Same thing, look, analyze, build, and program. Try some of the builds out.
Ask questions, look for ideas, or find troubleshooting tips:
ask Robohi <--- visit "For Educators" and look up topics (posts). There is more than one page of stuff. Make sure you are registered before trying to post something.
Work ends here ... (Review what was learned. If work was not completed, come back to this project next time.)
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Ukulele Playing Robot - I created this with the NXT set. This is still work in progress. Hopefully you can build one and improve upon it.
Ask questions, look for ideas, or find troubleshooting tips:
ask Robohi <--- visit "For Educators" and look up topics (posts). There is more than one page of stuff. Make sure you are registered before trying to post something.
Work ends here ... (Review what was learned. If work was not completed, come back to this project next time.)
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