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Students, ages 8-16, are engaged in designing, building, programming and investigating their own robotic creations. In their endeavors, students use "Robolab" ® - Lego Mindstorms ® Sets for Schools, and "The Handy Cricket" ® - a tiny micro-controller great for all sorts of robotics projects. Beg inners learn to follow printed building instructions as they get acquainted with all building materials. As they become more comfortable with the tools and materials, they learn to create their own projects by using a set of tools that helps them conceptualize their robots before actually building them. A Computer Aided Design (CAD) program helps them visualize their robot by using virtual parts to build a model on the computer. They use a different program to generate building instructions. As they finish building and defining the tasks, the robot is programmed using several tools (NQC ® - Dave Baum's Not Quite C programming language, the icon-based Robolab ® - Tufts University's version of LabView®). The entire project is guided by a Project Management tool, which facilitates implementation, investigation and references to other projects.
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Students, ages 8-16, are engaged in designing, building, programming and investigating their own robotic creations. In their endeavors, students use "Robolab" ® - Lego Mindstorms ® Sets for Schools, and "The Handy Cricket" ® - a tiny micro-controller great for all sorts of robotics projects. Beg inners learn to follow printed building instructions as they get acquainted with all building materials. As they become more comfortable with the tools and materials, they learn to create their own projects by using a set of tools that helps them conceptualize their robots before actually building them. A Computer Aided Design (CAD) program helps them visualize their robot by using virtual parts to build a model on the computer. They use a different program to generate building instructions. As they finish building and defining the tasks, the robot is programmed using several tools (NQC ® - Dave Baum's Not Quite C programming language, the icon-based Robolab ® - Tufts University's version of LabView®). The entire project is guided by a Project Management tool, which facilitates implementation, investigation and references to other projects.
