Books:
Robotic Explorations: An Introduction
to Engineering Through Design - by Fred Martin
Classrooms Using LEGO products:
- POPE JOHN XXIII Catholic School in Ontario, CA. An after-school robotics club for grades 5 and 6 runs The Can-Do CRAZY Robotics Challenge at their RoboDome facility.
- The Blake School Students in grades 2-5 use LEGO products to learn about pulleys, gears, and robotics. Teams keep their own journals and present their finished projects to parents, friends, classmates, and teachers.
- Davis Creek Elementary has been building Robots with LEGO elements and the RCX Intelligent Brick and programming them with RoboLab software. Their site is filled with documented projects done since 1996.
- The Gerald Ford School LEGO Lab The Lego Lab is a class in which students use LEGO DACTA kits to build and study machines. Learn whats covered at the sessions, the goals of the class and their future plans.
Links & Resources:
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| (...) Found it through LEGO Education (go to set, select quantity, click on "resources in the box on the right and select "element survey") https://c10645061.ss...ements.pdf Jetro (12 years ago, 3-Aug-12, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| Can anyone help me get a copy of the inventory for the WeDo Robotics Resource Set 9585? Many thanks in advance. Jetro (12 years ago, 27-Mar-12, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| Hi All, I'm in the planning stages for having the first Online LEGO NXT Interfacing Workshop. The hands-on event will be conducted using Skype as participants will be learning the basics of electronics interfacing aided by Hi Technic's Prototype (...) (16 years ago, 16-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| (...) It's not ideal for stock LEGO sensors I think, but it might be good to point out to them that the reason it blinks is to make things *easier*. With a source pulsing near a known frequency, ambient conditions are much easier to cancel out. (...) (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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