RoboLab by LEGO
March 18th
We are moving forward in our year with Robolab. We will be spending a few weeks really concentrating deeper on programming, and what it takes to develop a good program.
October 26th,
A few of our class working on the car building or programming. Angela is our volunteer engineer from National Instruments. She brings a lot of experience and expertise to our class to help with Robolab.
October 24
Car directions.
http://peek.princeton.edu/lesson_pdfs/9/The_Sturdy-Motorized_Car.pdf
October 10, 2007
We are into our second project now. Students are building cars which we will then use for programing. Cars will need to be able to go in a straight line for a set distance, stop, turn 90 degrees and then move forward for another set distance.
Sept. 11, 2007
We have started our RoboLab for the year. The first activity is a building test. The students need to create a structure that will withstand being dropped from my waist. We will then compete to see which group's design can be dropped from the highest point in the room.
The students are working on basic design structures. Learning about support and developing good group interaction. They are very eager to get into programming.
Through the year we will work on different RoboLab projects. One of our goals will be to complete a project and attend the RoboMania day this spring. That will take both a lot of team work and hard work to accomplish but it is a good goal to aim for. In order to participate with the RoboLab program students need to maintain good behavior as well as have all of their regular work turned in on time.
One of the reasons I love doing RoboLab is that when I was a student I loved building stuff out of legos. I have a brother and he was great at building his own stuff, I liked to follow the directions and build something exactly like the box. Now I can be a little more creative and take and idea and create a design to make it happen.