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Advanced Mindstorms Robotics Summer Camp
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Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:38:34 GMT
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Hi,
I'm in the process of developing a summer camp called Advanced STEPS (Science
Tehcnology and Engineering Preview) here at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
This is a follow on camp to one the participants were involved in as 7th
graders. We are planning to use the mindstorms RCX kits to have the campers
design and build autonomous robotic solutions to "rube goldberg" style of
problems. I liken these problems to missions within the FLL program. The twist
for us is that the missions must be performed sequentially and one robot will
trigger the next sequence etc. until all are completed.
We are developing ideas for curriculum about how to teach the campers how to use
the mindstorms to do some "gee-whiz" kinds of things. The topics we are going
to instruct in are: 1) mechanisms/build strategies, 2)programming using RoboLab,
3)control strategies, and 4)sensors use.
This will be a 4 day resident (on campus) camp and by the end of day 4, the
student teams will have displayed their working solutions, been judged by a
panel of engineers on their design creativity, programming creativity, teamwork
and overall performance of the tasks (yes this is modeled after the FLL system).
Are there any existing programs like this in existence? Does anyone have
recommended resources to use for the campers? We are planning to buy the Mario
Ferrari "Building Robots with LEGO Mindstorms" book for each camper as well as
each of them will go home with an RCX kit.
Any help LUGNET can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan Bee
University of Wisconsin-Stout
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| (...) So they have *some* background, and you can just jump in? I'm wondering how basic a start you need. (...) Well, a *really* simple way of doing this is to have four robots sitting at the corners of a rectangular enclosure. Start one, and it has (...) (18 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.edu)
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